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| Kentucky Facts |
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The first Miss America from Kentucky is Heather Renee French. She was crowned September 18, 1999. |
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The public saw an electric light for the first time in Louisville, Kentucky. Thomas Edison introduced his incandescent light bulb to crowds at the Southern Exposition in 1883. |
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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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