Portal:Louisville/Did you know.../4
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- ...that Louisville's Eleven Jones Cave (pictured) is the only known location for the Louisville cave beetle, Pseudanophthalmus troglodytes?
- ...that the hiring of Tom Jurich by the University of Louisville was dubbed "the most significant day in the recent history of college sports in Kentucky"?
- ...that Caesars Indiana's The Glory of Rome is the largest riverboat in North America, and the largest riverboat casino in the world?
- ...that a tornado outbreak in 1974 caused Owsley Brown Frazier to start a firearm collection large enough for a museum?
- ...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?
- ...that American Civil War leader William Tecumseh Sherman said, "No single body of men can claim more honor for the grand result than the officers and men of the Louisville Legion"?