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Rhode Island’s full name is “Rhode Island and Providence Plantations” 98% of the wild blueberries in the world come from Maine Vermont has the most breweries of any U.S. state 2014 is the 250th year of the “Hartford Courant” newspaper, the oldest continuously published paper in the country 20% of …

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