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Fort Knox is located on Bullion Boulevard.

The Hudson Bay Company is both the oldest corporate enterprise still in existence and the largest corporate landowner in history? Founded in 1670, its realm once covered nearly 3 million square miles and the company now operates the largest department store chain in Canada.

Booker T. Washington was the first African-American to have his portrait engraved on a U.S. coin? He was on a commemorative silver half-dollar, issued from 1946-1951.

In 1987, American Airlines claimed it saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from each of the salads served in first class.

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