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* George Orwell received this note back from a publisher to whom he'd sent his Animal Farm manuscript: "It is impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.A."

* 342 cases of tea were tossed into the harbor during the Boston Tea Party.

* Words to live by from Babe Didrikson, female athlete extraordinaire: "It's not enough just to swing at the ball; you've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it."

* The first American entrepreneur to be worth a billion dollars was car mogul Henry Ford.

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