The Top 10 Greatest Things About Kentucky

Not only do we wear shoes, we have a lot of other awesome stuff, too!

We have more barrels of bourbon than we do people

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See? That pretty much says it all. Need more still? Fine ....

The cheeseburger was invented in Kentucky

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Louisville, Kentucky to be precise. At Kaelin's Restaurant. The year was 1934 and I think we can all agree it is still delicious.

We're the first to sing you happy birthday

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No, seriously!

Happy Birthday To You was written by two sisters from Louisville, Ky. in 1893.

We have a city built in a meteor crater

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That would be Middlesboro, Ky. and it is far out.

Ok, we're really sorry about that.

We have some weird laws

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For instance, until 1976 is was illegal for a woman between 90 and 200 pounds to walk along a highway in a bathing suit unless accompanied by two police officers. Or armed with a club.

We're the reason you have Corvettes

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They are manufactured in Bowling Green, Ky.

You're welcome world.

Kentucky is home to the largest baseball bat in the world

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The 120 foot tall bat is at the Louisville Slugger Museum in Louisville, Ky. It weighs more than 68,000 pounds.

Oh - and they still make baseball bats there too.

We have notable citizens - like the only Supreme Court Justice born in a jail

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Really, who else can say that?

Frederick Vinson rose to the rank of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after his humble beginnings in a jail cell in Louisa Ky.

Home to a world record holding stilt walker

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Joe Bowen started out in Bowen, Ky. and walked all the way to Los Angeles. On stilts.

Seriously. This did happen.

We have the BEST parties

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Like the premier Derby Eve gala - Unbridled Eve - where you can trade mint julep recipes with the who's who of Hollywood the night before sipping mint juleps trackside during the fastest (and greatest) two minutes in sports.