Fort Knox
About Fort Knox
Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository, which is used to house a large portion of the United States' official gold reserves, and with which it is often conflated.
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People think Fort Knox holds up to half of America's gold reserves, though conspiracy theorists claim there is nothing inside it, which was the plot of a James Bond film.
from 432: No Such Thing As Sexygesimal Time · read transcript
More facts about Fort Knox
Franklin Roosevelt is the only US president to have visited Fort Knox, in 1943, because he was worried it was not secure enough against foreign invasion in World War II.
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