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  Louisville Facts and Trivia
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Last EditedPragCon 3.0  Jun 02, 2006 09:25am
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MediaNewspaper - Louisville Courier Journal
News DateFriday, June 2, 2006 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionLouisville has one of the nation's most extensive metropolitan park systems, designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, architect of New York's Central Park. The Jefferson Memorial Forest is the largest urban forest in the United States.


Louisville is one of only 12 U.S. cities with a resident professional opera, theater, orchestra, ballet and children's theater.


The 85-acre Waterfront Park was rated best in the nation on Briggs & Stratton's "No. 1 Lawns for Family Fun" (2004).


Kaelin's Restaurant claim to be the birthplace of the cheeseburger -- 15 cents on that first menu in October 1934.


Two of the three top-selling vehicles in the U.S. are made in Louisville: the Ford F-series pickup and the Ford Explorer SUV.


Thunder Over Louisville, the opening event of the annual Kentucky Derby Festival, is the largest fireworks show in North America.


The "high five" was invented in Louisville. The slapping of hands above the head, which two people do to celebrate, began during the 1979-80 basketball season when University of Louisville player Derek Smith coined the term.


The late Hunter S. Thompson, inventor of "Gonzo Journalism," was a native Louisvillian.


The Kentucky Shakespeare Festival is the oldest of the six free professional, independently operated Shakespeare festivals in the United States.

Most of the lobster sold in the United States and served in restaurants comes from Louisville -- through the company Clearwater Fine Foods and shipped around the country by UPS.

Rolls-Royce warehouses all of its automobile parts for North America in Louisville.
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