Portal:Louisville/Did you know
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- ...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 Louisville's Eleven Jones Cave is the only known location for the Louisville cave beetle, Pseudanophthalmus troglodytes?
- ...that no commercial boat has beaten the steamboat Robert E. Lee's 1870 speed record between New Orleans and St. Louis of 90 hours and 14 minutes to this day?
- ...that the Louisville and Portland Canal, opened in 1830, was the first major improvement completed on a major river of the United States?
- ...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"?
- ...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 a series of explosions destroyed two miles of Louisville, Kentucky's sewer system on Friday the 13th in February 1981?
- ...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?
- ...that three years after tying for its final Kentucky State Football championship, Flaget High School (pictured) closed due to falling enrollment?
