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Kentucky Fun Facts
- Thomas Edison chose Louisville's 1883 Southern Exposition to demonstrate his incandescent light bulb for the first time.
- Two Louisville kindergarten teachers wrote the ubiquitous “Happy Birthday to You” song in 1893.
- Kaelin's, a Louisville restaurant, claims to have served the first cheeseburger in 1934.
- Louisville has more restaurants per capita than any other U.S. city.
- Leaning across the entrance to the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory is the world's biggest bat. The “Big Bat” weighs close to 68,000 pounds, is 120 feet long and nine feet in diameter at its base.
- The largest amount of gold stored anywhere in the U.S. (approximately $6 billion worth) is held in the underground vaults of the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.
- Lexington's Jif Peanut Butter factory produces more of this sticky, buttery, pea-nutty confection than any other place in the world.
- Middlesboro, Kentucky is the only U.S. city built inside a meteor crater.
- Colonel Sanders' first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant was located in Corbin, Kentucky.
Tennessee Fun Facts
- Chattanooga attorneys purchased the Coca-Cola bottling rights for $1 and subsequently bottled the first coke in 1899.
- Because of local liquor laws, it is legal to distill Jack Daniel's inside of Moore County but illegal to purchase it there.
Nashville Fun Facts
- The famous phrase “good to the last drop!” was actually coined by Theodore Roosevelt after drinking a cup of Nashville coffee at the then-prestigious Maxwell House Hotel.
- Don't have the time or money to travel all the way to Athens? Visit Nashville's Centennial Park instead and see a replica of the ancient Greek architectural wonder, the Parthenon.
- Nashville, Tennessee is the home of the oldest African-American architectural firm, McKissack and McKissack.
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