Portal:Indiana/Did you know
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- ...that Indiana's Eel River (pictured) once served as informal boundary between the lands of the Potawatomi people in the north and Miami people in the south?
- ...that before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Jackson v. Indiana, an incompetent criminal defendant could be involuntarily confined indefinitely (as if given a life sentence) without a trial or a conviction?
- ...that Fisher Automobile Company in Indianapolis, Indiana is believed to have been the first automobile dealership in the United States?
- ...that the 32nd Indiana Monument, currently at Cave Hill National Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky, is the oldest surviving American Civil War memorial?
- ...that basketball coach Bob Knight told a radio program that if he had not been fired from Indiana University in 2000, he would have fired his assistant Mike Davis, who replaced him as IU coach?
- ... that University of Notre Dame basketball player Luke Harangody (pictured) and his brother were banned from playing basketball in their backyard as children because their games regularly ended in fights?