The world's largest baseball bat, 120 ft. tall & 68,000lbs, stands at the Louisville Slugger Museum

Cumberland Falls is the only waterfall in the Northern Hemisphere to display a moonbow.

More than 500 roses are in the garland presented to the Kentucky Derby winner each year.

The Jif plant in Lexington is the largest peanut butter producing facility in the world.

Post-It Notes are manufactured exclusively in Cynthiana.

The first observance of Mother's Day was in Henderson by teacher Mary S. Wilson in 1887. It was made a national holiday in 1916.

The great Man o' War won all of his races except one, which he lost to a horse named Upset.

Cheeseburgers were first served in 1934 at Kaelin's in Louisville.

All Chevrolet Corvettes are manufactured in Bowling Green.

The world's longest cave, Mammoth Cave, was first promoted in 1816, making it the second oldest tourist attraction in the U.S., preceded only by Niagara Falls.

Mammoth Cave is the longest reorded cave system in the world, with over 360 miles explored & mapped

The first Civil War Monument was erected in Hart County in 1861. In late December 1861, August Bloedner, a German born stonemason serving in Company I, 32nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry, United States Army, erected the first Civil War monument in the nation. He did this to honor his fellow soldier killed during the Battle of Rowletts Station on December 17, 1861. THe monument was later moved to Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.

More than $6 billion worth of gold is held in the underground vaults of Fort Knox. This is the largest amount of gold stored anywhere in the world.

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.

Middlesboro, Kentucky is one of only a few cities in the U.S. built within a meteor crater.