Portal:Indiana/Did you know

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...that Indianapolis's Scottish Rite Cathedral (pictured) is the largest building dedicated to Freemasonry in the United States, and features many measurements in multiples of 33?
...that during the American Civil War, Indiana, a Northern state, saw one township secede from the Union?
...that Fisher Automobile Company in Indianapolis, Indiana is believed to have been the first automobile dealership in the United States?

...that only eight of the planned 296 miles of the Indiana Central Canal were built, due to Indiana being bankrupted by the Panic of 1837?

...that after Tony Kiritsis was declared "not guilty by reason of insanity" in 1977, Indiana legislators amended the law to provide for verdicts of "guilty but mentally ill" and "not responsible by reason of insanity"?

...that despite its federal mandate to provide only inter-city rail service, Amtrak operated the Calumet commuter train between Chicago and the Indiana suburb of Valparaiso from 1979 to 1991?

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