The first regulated speed limit on Indiana roads was initiated in 1921. 25 mph!! Just Cruisin'!  

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An average of 400 funnel clouds are sighted each year in Indiana.

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The exteriors of the hit movie Hoosiers was filmed just 25 miles from the Purdue campus *****************************************************************************************************
Remember another hit movie - Breaking Away? Well, it was filmed in Bloomington, Indiana and partially on the campus of Indiana University - I.U.!
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"The Girls of Kokomo" appear annually in Playboy Magazine.

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Infamous bank robber, John Dillinger, declared he would never rob any banks in Anderson, Indiana because there were railroad tracks over every exit road.

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Josie Orr, wife of former Indiana Governor Robert Orr, flew bombers and cargo planes during World War II.

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The Indianapolis Methodist Hospital is the largest Hospital in the Midwest.

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One of the first complete bathrooms in Indianapolis was in the home of Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley.

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One of the first evaporated milk companies was started by an Indiana Dentist, Dr. Wilson.

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Fort Wayne, Indiana Library houses one of the largest genealogy libraries in America.

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Indianapolis has the most Interstate legs in the U.S. earning it the title of "Crossroads of America".

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The Courthouse in Greensburg, Indiana has a tree growing from it.

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The world's first transistor radio was made in Indianapolis.

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Elkhart, Indiana is the band instrument capitol of the World.

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Frank Sinatra first sang with the Tommy Dorsey band at the Lyric Theater in Indianapolis.

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Purdue Alumnus, Earl Butz, served as the Secretary of Agriculture.

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The singing McGuire Sisters spent their childhood summers at the Church of God Campground in Anderson, Indiana.

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LaPorte County is the only county in America having 2 functioning Courthouses.

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Nancy Hanks Lincoln is buried in Spencer County, Indiana.

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The Lincoln Museum in Allen County contains the world's largest private collection of President Abraham Lincoln.

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Buffaloes roamed in Indiana at the Needmore Buffalo Farm in Harrison County.

***************************************************************************************************** St. Meinrad Archabbey is located in Spencer County and is one of only 2 archabbey in the U.S. and seven in the world. Abbey Press is in operation of the archabbey.

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The first oil extracted from grain (corn) was maufactured and marketed by the Hudnut Hominy Company of Terre Haute in 1899.

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The first cocoa bean-shaped Coca Cola bottle was designed and manufactured in Terre Haute by the Root Glass Company in 1915-16.

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The first V-8 juice was manufactured in Terre Haute.

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The first digital audio disc was manufactured in Terre Haute.

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At one time, the Terre Haute Quaker Maid plant of the Great A & P Co. was the largest food processing plant in the world under one roof.

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Penicillin was first commercially manufactured at Commercial Solvents plant .

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Virginia Somes Jenckes of Terre Haute was the first Congresswoman elected in Indiana.

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Longtime Illinois Congressman and Speaker of the House Joseph G. Cannon, who resided during his youth in Parke County, Indiana, studied law and was admitted to the bar in Terre Haute. The House of Representatives office building is named after him.

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U.S. Senator Daniel W. Voorhees of Terre Haute drafted and introduced the resolution to build the current Library of Congress.

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Between 1889 and 1902, the Four-Cornered Track was the site of over 20 world records and was considered the fastest harness racing track in the world.

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Before Prohibition, federal taxes on distilled spirits manufactured in Terre Haute accounted for over 14 percent of the nation's revenue.

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Herald Rea Cox discovered the vaccine for Rocky Mountain spotted fever and vaccines for several strains of typhus.

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Former resident Edward J. Roye became the fifth president of Liberia.

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Former Indiana resident Pinkney Benton Stewart Pinchback became the first African-American to serve as the governor of a state (Louisiana).

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Edward Price Bell was the first journalist ever nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (1930).

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Bert Shepard of Dana, Indiana, is the only person ever to play in a major league baseball game with an artificial limb.

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Two members of the group known as the "first Dillinger Gang" -- Russell Clark and Edward Shouse -- were from Terre Haute. Another member of the gang, Harry Pierpont, spent several formative years in Brazil, Indiana.

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Steve McQueen was born Beech Grove, Indiana. Forrest Tucker was born in Ft. Wayne. Carl Malden was born in Indiana. Also Claude Aikens was born in Linton.

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David Letterman, Red Skelton, Florence Henderson, Janie Fricke and Herb Shriner were all from Indiana...and let's not forget Jim Jones.

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Country star Steve Warnier is from Noblesville.

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How about the Outlaw Sam Bass or the author of Ben Hur - Gen. Lew Wallace or Ernie Pyle and the famous rocker John Mellencamp? Don't forget Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five or the fact that the very first train robbery which soon became a national trend.

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