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    The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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    You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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    One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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    Cherry Blossom Diplomacy
    Cherry Blossom Diplomacy
    The pink cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. were a gift from Imperial Japan in 1912. They sent more than 3,000 seeds to be planted near the Potomac River as a symbol of friendship between the two nations.
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    The Statue of Liberty has US women's shoe size 879.
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    The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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    The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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    203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
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