• People of St. Louis consume more BBQ sauce per capita than in any other city in the U.S.
  • The 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis popularized a number of new foods, including the hot dog, ice cream cone, and iced tea
  • The Eads Bridge in St. Louis, completed in 1874, was the first arched steel truss bridge in the world and considered impossible to build
  • The Climatron at St. Louis’ Missouri Botanical Garden is home to the largest Japanese garden in North America
  • St. Louis was home to the first cathedral and first university west of the Mississippi River
  • Panera, which originated in St. Louis as the St. Louis Bread Company, is still known locally as “Bread Co”
  • St. Louis’ famed Arch is as wide as it is tall – 630 feet wide