• More than 665,000 degrees have been awarded by Penn State, including the first 12 in 1861.

• Slinky, birth control pills, Retin A, and the telephone jack are just a few of the many varied discoveries by Penn Staters. In fact, Penn State ranks among the nation’s 10 largest public research universities.

• 90 percent of all of the world’s golf courses are covered with Penn State-bred turfgrass varieties.

• President Bill Clinton is the only known person to have received a two-flavor cone at the Berkey Creamery—Peachy Paterno and Cherry Quist—when he visited during a 1996 campaign stop.

• Yep, it’s true. Ben & Jerry’s did get its start through a $5 Penn State ice cream correspondence course taken by co-founder Jerry Greenfield.

• 12 U.S. presidents have come and 11 have gone while legendary Coach Joe Paterno has coached at Penn State—starting with Harry S. Truman.

• One and one. Penn State has just one Nobel Prize winner, Paul Berg ’48, ’52g, who won in chemistry in 1980, and one Heisman Trophy winner, John Cappelletti ’74, who took the trophy home in 1973.

• While Coach Paterno is one of a kind, more than 30,000 life-size replicas—Stand Up Joes—have been sold since it came out in 1984, with 12 percent of the proceeds going to charity.

• 90 of the current Fortune 100 companies have Penn State business graduates in their executive suites and offices.

• The award-winning novel “Catch 22” germinated during author Joseph Heller’s faculty tenure at Penn State in the early 1950s.

• The first planets ever found outside of our solar system were discovered by Penn State Professor Aleksander Wolszczan.

Find more facts at www.psu.edu/ur/about/superlatives.

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