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...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?

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...that the Louisville Water Tower (pictured) is the oldest ornamental water tower in the world?
...that Clark State Forest was Indiana's largest Civilian Conservation Corps cantonment?
...that Louisville's Union Station was reported to be the largest such facility in the southern United States?
...that the United States Navy's Naval Ordnance Station in Louisville, Kentucky was chosen due to being so far inland as to prevent enemy airstrikes?
..that the St. James-Belgravia Historic District of Louisville, Kentucky, the site of the 1883-87 Southern Exposition, has buildings modeled after London's Belgravia?
...that Neville Miller is remembered as Louisville, Kentucky's "flood mayor" for his strong leadership during the Ohio River flood of 1937?

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...that the United States Marine Hospital (pictured) in Louisville, Kentucky is considered the best remaining antebellum hospital in the US?
...that Basil W. Duke became the chief consul and lobbyist for the L&N Railroad after the American Civil War, even though he led many efforts in destroying their property during the war?
...that Bullitt's Lick was the first industry and supplier of salt in what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky?
...that the Pewee Valley Confederate Memorial is the only American Civil War obelisk monument in Kentucky to be made of zinc?
...that none of Louisville's fortifications for the American Civil War were ever used, as Louisville was never endangered while they existed?
...that the Louisville and Portland Canal, opened in 1830, was the first major improvement completed on a major river of the United States?

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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"?

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...that the participants of the Great Steamboat Race, usually the Belle of Louisville and the Delta Queen, reach speeds of only seven miles an hour.
...that key donors of land to Louisville, Kentucky's 26-mile parkway system included a veteran of the Confederate Army and a notorious political boss?
...that newspaper editor George D. Prentice expressed regret later in life for fiery anti-Catholic editorials that played a role in the Bloody Monday riot of 1855?
...that a series of explosions destroyed two miles of Louisville, Kentucky's sewer system on Friday the 13th in February 1981?
...that Robert Worth Bingham purchased the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1918 using a bequest from his second wife, to whom he had been married for less than a year before her death?
...that Queen Elizabeth II was given a Louisville Stoneware musical box at the 2007 Kentucky Derby?

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...that the influx of Irish to Louisville (example of Irish-built housing pictured) led to the diminishing of slaves in Louisville by 1860?
...that the Old Fashioned, possibly the first drink to be called a cocktail, was invented at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1880s?
... that Louisville, Kentucky's first rock and roll venue, in Lake Dreamland, may have been burned down by an angry resident?
...that political boss John Henry Whallen influenced every election in Louisville, Kentucky from 1885 until his death in 1913?
...that the 32nd Indiana Monument at Cave Hill Cemetery is the oldest surviving monument of the American Civil War?
...that Louisville, Kentucky's first parking garage was built in 1953, as an addition to the 1913 Starks Building?
...that Paul C. Barth, former mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, committed suicide after being ridiculed for a scandal involving the use of city funds to buy an expensive saddle horse?

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...that two US Presidents, Thomas Jefferson and William Henry Harrison, are responsible for the layout of the Old Jeffersonville Historic District?
...that after attempting to bribe a teammate to lose a game during the 1876 season, George Bechtel of the Louisville Grays became one of the first players banned for life from Major League Baseball?
...that the French once had an outpost called La Belle, where Louisville now stands?
...that when built in 1868, Louisville's Fourteenth Street Bridge was the longest iron bridge in the United States?
...that New Albany, Indiana's Cedar Bough Place is the only "private street" in a city near Louisville, Kentucky?
...that three years after tying for its final Kentucky State Football championship, Flaget High School closed due to falling enrollment?
...that real estate developer James Graham Brown, who was worth $100 million when he died in 1969, lived most of his life in a small suite in his Brown Hotel?

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... that 37 people were killed during construction of the Big Four Bridge (pictured) connecting Louisville, Kentucky to Jeffersonville, Indiana across the Ohio River?
... that DePauw Avenue Historic District, New Albany, Indiana, was once the summer estate of the man who owned two thirds of the plate glass business of the United States?
... that the oldest firehouse still standing in Louisville, Kentucky was once a church?

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