Portal:Louisville/Did you know.../1

...that no commercial boat has beaten the steamboat Robert E. Lee's (pictured) 1870 speed record between New Orleans and St. Louis of 90 hours and 14 minutes to this day?
...that the Kentucky Irish American counted among its subscribers Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman?
...that the hollow log pipes of the 1787 Mann's Lick salt furnace allegedly still existed in the 1940s?
...that the statue of King Louis XVI built in 1829, currently at the Metro Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, was endangered by the Second French Revolution in 1830?
...that the traditional song Happy Birthday to You was first sung at the Little Loomhouse of Louisville, Kentucky?
...that the Schuster Building in Louisville, Kentucky was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as a "significant example" of Colonial Revival architecture?