Kentucky Fun Facts & Trivia

• Kentucky produces more than 95% of the world's bourbon.
• Bourbon is whiskey but not all whiskey is bourbon. In order to be considered bourbon it must be made from at least 51% corn and aged in new, charred oak barrels.
• Bourbon County, Kentucky is dry while Christian County is wet.
• Cumberland Falls is the only waterfall in the world to regularly display a Moonbow. It is located just southwest of Corbin.
• The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continuously held horse race in the United States. It is held at Churchill Downs in Louisville on the first Saturday in May.
• The great American Muscle Car, the Chevy Corvette, is manufactured in Bowling Green.
• 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 is the oldest.
• The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant owned and operated by Colonel Harlan Sanders is located in Corbin.
• Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States, was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky.
• 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.
• The radio was invented by a Kentuckian from western Kentucky named Nathan B. Stubblefield in 1892. It was three years before Marconi made claim to the invention.
• The Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington has 82 stained glass windows including the world's largest hand-blown one. The window measures 24' wide x 67' high and depicts the Council of Ephesus with 134 life-sized figures.
• Paducah is home to the National Quilt Museum and annually hosts the American Quilter's Society Show, the nation's largest quilting expo.
• The Audubon Museum in Henderson houses the largest collection of John James Audubon prints in the country outside of the Smithsonian Museum.

Kentucky is a great place to do business!