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TIL the state drink of Pennsylvania is milk and its state food is chocolate chip cookies

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xV070 TIL that Carlotta J. Thompkins, also known as Lottie Deno, was in the late 1800s Texas' most famous poker player. Later in life she and her husband became upstanding citizens in Deming, New Mexico, where her husband became a bank vice president and she helped found St. Luke's Episcopal Church.
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