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- ...that Indianapolis's Scottish Rite Cathedral (pictured) is the largest building dedicated to Freemasonry in the United States, and features many measurements in multiples of 33?
- ...that German-born Richard Lieber, the founder of Indiana state parks, started the trend of American state parks having inns and charging fees for using the parks, so that citizens would appreciate them more?
- ...that the Ryan White Care Act, responsible for U.S. federal government HIV/AIDS services, is named after Ryan White, a teenager who was expelled from his Indiana middle school in 1985 for having AIDS?
- ...that the Kintner-Withers House's Cedar Farm is the only antebellum plantation in the state of Indiana?
- ...that the Hutsonville Bridge was a self-anchored suspension bridge that was controversially torn down in 1988, at the insistence of the Indiana Department of Transportation, despite the demolition company offering to donate 100,000 USD to preserve it instead?
- ...that Charles Butler McVay III, commander of the USS Indianapolis, was blamed when it was lost at sea in 1945 and only finally exonerated by the United States Congress posthumously in 2000?
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- ...that German-born Richard Lieber, the founder of Indiana state parks, started the trend of American state parks having inns and charging fees for using the parks, so that citizens would appreciate them more?
- ...that the Potawatomi, a tribe of Native Americans, were evicted from land near Indiana’s Yellow River less than six years after tribal chiefs signed a treaty granting them that land in perpetuity?
- ...that during the American Civil War, Indiana, a Northern state, saw one township secede from the Union?
- ...that before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Jackson v. Indiana, an incompetent criminal defendant could be involuntarily confined indefinitely (as if given a life sentence) without a trial or a conviction?
- ...that the efforts of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources have restored Indiana's total forestland acreage to more than double its turn-of-the-20th-century level?
- ...that Parke County, Indiana bills itself as the Covered Bridge Capital of the World (pictured) because it has more covered bridges than any other county in the United States?
- ...that Indiana's Eel River (pictured) once served as informal boundary between the lands of the Potawatomi people in the north and Miami people in the south?
- ...that Indianapolis's Scottish Rite Cathedral (pictured) is the largest building dedicated to Freemasonry in the United States, and features many measurements in multiples of 33?
- ...that 9 of Indiana's 12 native bat species have been observed in the National Natural Landmark Wyandotte Caves? (pictured)
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- ...that Short's goldenrod (pictured), one of the world's rarest plants, grows only in parts of Kentucky and Indiana?
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- ...that the Indiana Historical Society (pictured) is the oldest state historical society west of the Allegheny Mountains?
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- ...that Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King is believed to have prevented riots from breaking out in Indianapolis?
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- ...that the establishment of Camp Joe Holt, the first significant act to keep Kentucky from fully seceding to the Confederate States of America, had to be done in Indiana?
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- ...that Kentucky governor William S. Taylor was implicated in the assassination of William Goebel, his political rival, and fled to Indiana to avoid indictment?
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- ...that the Ryan White Care Act, responsible for U.S. federal government HIV/AIDS services, is named after Ryan White, a teenager who was expelled from his Indiana middle school in 1985 for having AIDS?
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- ...that Fisher Automobile Company in Indianapolis, Indiana is believed to have been the first automobile dealership in the United States?
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- ...that only eight of the planned 296 miles of the Indiana Central Canal were built, due to Indiana being bankrupted by the Panic of 1837?
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- ...that slavery existed in Indiana as late as 1840, even though Indiana was always a free state above the Mason-Dixon line, and slavery had been outlawed in the region due to the Northwest Ordinance in 1787?
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- ...that Paula Cooper, sentenced to death at age 15, had her sentence commuted in 1989 after an international uproar ensued and Pope John Paul II appealed to the Governor of Indiana for leniency?
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- ...that the 32nd Indiana Monument, currently at Cave Hill National Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky, is the oldest surviving American Civil War memorial?
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- ...that the Kintner-Withers House's Cedar Farm is the only antebellum plantation in the state of Indiana?
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- ...that a pioneer automobile manufacturer, August Duesenberg, went bankrupt after his failure to sell his first mass produced vehicle, although his race cars had won seven of the first ten places in the 1920 Indianapolis 500-mile race?
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- ...that the Hutsonville Bridge was a self-anchored suspension bridge that was controversially torn down in 1988, at the insistence of the Indiana Department of Transportation, despite the demolition company offering to donate 100,000 USD to preserve it instead?
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- ...that after Tony Kiritsis was declared "not guilty by reason of insanity" in 1977, Indiana legislators amended the law to provide for verdicts of "guilty but mentally ill" and "not responsible by reason of insanity"?
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- ...that basketball coach Bob Knight told a radio program that if he had not been fired from Indiana University in 2000, he would have fired his assistant Mike Davis, who replaced him as IU coach?
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- ...that despite its federal mandate to provide only intercity rail service, Amtrak operated the Calumet commuter train between Chicago, Illinois and the Indiana suburb of Valparaiso from 1979 to 1991?
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- ...that Charles Butler McVay III, commander of the USS Indianapolis, was blamed when it was lost at sea in 1945 and only finally exonerated by the United States Congress posthumously in 2000?
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- ...that despite a sight-impairment disability, Carl G. Fisher became a notable American entrepreneur, who helped develop sealed beam headlights, the Lincoln Highway (the first U.S. transcontinental paved roadway), the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and the resort city of Miami Beach, Florida?
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- ...that the state symbols of Indiana include water as the official beverage, Salem limestone as the official stone, and the Peony as the official flower?
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