More from my dad....in Kentucky, of course.
Little Known Kentucky Facts:
Cheeseburgers were first served in 1934 at Kaolin's restaurant in Louisville.
The town of Corbin was the birthplace of old time movie star Arthur Lake whose real surname was Silverlake: He played the role of Dagwood in the "Blondie" films of the 1930s and '40s Lake's parents were trapeze artists billed as The Flying Silverlakes.
More than 100 native Kentuckians have been elected governors of other states.
The song "Happy Birthday to You" was the creation of two Louisville sisters in 1893.
Teacher Mary S. Wilson held the first observance of Mother's Day in Henderson in 1887. It was made a national holiday in 1916.
Post-It Notes are manufactured exclusively in Cynthiana. The exact number made annually of these popular notes is a trade secret.
The public saw an electric light for the first time in Louisville. Thomas Edison introduced his incandescent light bulb to crowds at the Southern Exposition in 1883.
The radio was invented by a Kentuckian named Nathan B. Stubblefield of Murray in 1892. It was three years before Marconi made his claim to the invention.
In the War of 1812 more than half of all Americans killed in action were Kentuckians.
Middlesboro is the only city in the United States built within a meteor crater.
The Lost River Cave and Valley Bowling Green includes a cave with the shortest and deepest underground river in the world. It contains the largest cave opening east of the Mississippi.
Frederick Vinson who was born in Louisa is the only Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court known to be born in jail.
Pike County the world's largest producer of coal is famous for the Hatfield-McCoy feud, an Appalachian vendetta that lasted from the Civil War to the 1890s.
Mammoth Cave is the world's longest cave and was first promoted in 1816, making it the second oldest tourist attraction in the United States. Niagara Falls, New York is first
Thanks for the Retro I always enjoye these things~!
Kaolin is one of the few words to make it from Chinese to English unaltered...