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| Kentucky Facts |
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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. |
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The first American performance of a Beethoven symphony was in Lexington, Kentucky in 1817. |
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High Bridge located near Nicholasville, Kentucky is the highest railroad bridge over navigable water in the United States. |
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