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#2091
08-01-2018, 08:30 PM
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 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer may live at the North Pole, but he was born in Chicago in 1939. The Montgomery Ward department store chain assigned ad copywriter Robert May to compose a Christmas poem that could be distributed to customers nationwide. 
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#2092
08-01-2018, 08:36 PM
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 Chicago is the birthplace of the first ever ferris wheel, which was 264-feet tall and debuted in the 1893 World’s Fair and was demolished shortly after in 1906. Today the 150-foot tall (15 story high) one at Navy Pier is modeled after the original one.
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#2093
08-01-2018, 08:37 PM
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 Georgia is the birthplace of miniature golf. More specifically, at Lookout Mountain’s Rock City, which is located right outside of Chattanooga, TN.
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#2094
08-01-2018, 08:40 PM
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 Atlantic City is home to longest boardwalk in the world and it’s often considered to be the best. It was America’s first boardwalk, built in 1870 to limit the amount of sand that beach-goers tracked into the train and hotel lobbies.
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#2095
08-01-2018, 08:42 PM
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 The grizzly bear is the official state animal of California. But no grizzly bears have been seen there since 1922.
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#2096
08-01-2018, 08:46 PM
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 32% of all land in the US is owned by the federal government, as they own about 650 million acres. The Federal Government actually owns 84.5% of Nevada, 69.1% of Alaska and 57.4% of Utah.
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#2097
08-01-2018, 08:50 PM
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 The American flag’s official colors are “Old Glory Red,” “White,” and “Old Glory Blue.”
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#2098
08-01-2018, 10:04 PM
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#2099
08-01-2018, 10:07 PM
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08-01-2018, 10:08 PM
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