• Old Louisville is the largest Victorian Historic neighborhood in the United States.
• The "Hot Brown" is a signature Kentucky Dish.
• Kentucky has 6 islands.
• The Kentucky state bird is the cardinal.
• The internet second-level domain of Kentucky is ".ky.us"
• Kentucky became the 15th state to be admitted to the union on June 1, 1792.
• The Kentucky official state instrument is the Appalachian dulcimer.
• Kentucky's state motto is "United we stand, divided we fall".
• Kentucky is 140 miles wide.
• The postal symbol of Kentucky is "KY".
• There are 5 area codes servicing Kentucky.
• The Kentucky Derby is hosted at Churchill Downs.
• Kentucky has had 4 constitutions.
• Kentucky has 14 ghost towns.  One of them is named "Fudge".
• The origin of the name "Kentucky" is not known with any certainty.
• Kentucky is the 22nd most densely populated state (42.5/sq. km).
• The Kentucky official state soil is the crider soil series.
• Kentucky is composed of 120 Counties.
• Jennifer Lawrence was born in Louisville, KY
• The capital of Kentucky is Frankfort.
• More than 50% of the surface rocks in Kentucky are limestones.
• Kentucky is the 26th most populous state (4,413,457).
• Over 95% of the inhabitants of Kentucky are able to speak English.
• The Louisville Slugger baseball bat is made in Kentucky.
• The flag of the commonwealth of Kentucky is the Commonwealth's seal on a navy blue field, surrounded by the words "Commonwealth of Kentucky" above and springs of goldenrod, the state flower, below.
• Whenever anyone in Kentucky has a problem, they call the Turtle Man.
• Kentucky has 2 senators and 6 congressmen.
• Kentucky's primary airports are Louisville International Airport, Cincinnati International Airport, and Blue Grass Airport.
• Kentucky has 21 major coal-fired power plants.
• The Kentucky Derby is preceded by the two-week Derby Festival in Louisville.
• Kentucky is one of four states to use the term "commonwealth".
• The highest point in Kentucky is Black Mountain (1263m).
• Gatorade ain't just for football, the Gatorade is for the Turtle Man.
• The Ohio River forms the norther border of Kentucky.
• The Kentucky official state dance is clogging.
• The lowest point in Kentucky is the Mississippi River (78m).
• The Louisville Cardinals are the best Basketball team in Kentucky.
• The University of Kentucky is the worst Basketball team in Kentucky.
• Kentucky featured the first public display of Thomas Edison's light bulb.
• The Kentucky state fossil is the brachiopod.
• Kentucky has 7 major hydroelectric power plants.
• The official state mineral of Kentucky is coal.
• George Clooney was born in Kentucky.
• Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park has the world's longest known cave system.
• The Kentucky state horse is the thoroughbred.
• Kentucky has 23 forts.
• Kentucky is the 37th largest state by area (104,659 sq. km).
• The ISO 3166-2 code of Kentucky is: "US-KY"
• Kentucky has 8 public universities.
• Kentucky is 379 miles long.
• The official state beverage of Kentucky is milk.
• Kentucky is 1.7% water.
• The Kentucky official state rock is Kentucky agate.
• The old Kentucky official state tree was the Kentucky coffee tree (Gymnocladus dioicus.) The tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) is the current official state tree. The change was made in 1976.
• Cheeseburgers were first served in 1934 at Kaolin's restaurant in Louisville.
• The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant owned and operated by Colonel Sanders is located in Corbin, KY.
• Kentucky is the state where both Abraham Lincoln, President of the Union, and Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, were born. They were born less than one hundred miles and one year apart.
• Thunder Over Louisville is the opening ceremony for the Kentucky Derby Festival and is the world's largest fireworks display.
• In 1888, "Honest Dick" Tate the state treasurer embezzled $247,000 and fled the state.
• The first American performance of a Beethoven symphony was in Lexington in 1817.
• Bluegrass is not really blue--its green--but in the spring bluegrass produces bluish purple buds that when seen in large fields give a blue cast to the grass. Today Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State.
• 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.
• Middlesboro, KY is the only city in the United States built within a meteor crater.
• Kentucky-born Alben W. Barkley was the oldest United States Vice President when he assumed office in 1949. He was 71 years old.
• More than $6 billion worth of gold is held in the underground vaults of Fort Knox in Kentucky. This is the largest amount of gold stored anywhere in the world.
• 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.