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TIL for 20 years, the wooden pieces for every Scrabble set in North America were manufactured in Fairfax, Vermont. FYI, in the US, the standard Scrabble sets had wooden tiles, and the deluxe ones had plastic, but in Europe, it was the other way around.

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