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• The first Arbor Day holiday was observed in Nebraska in 1872. To this day, the headquarters of the National Arbor Day Foundation is in Nebraska City.
• Nebraska has more miles of river than any other state.
• In 1927, Edward Perkins created Kool-Aid in the city of Hastings. Today, Kool-Aid is the official soft drink of Nebraska.
• Clifton Hilegrass, inventor of CliffsNotes, was from Rising City.
• The world's largest train yard is located in North Platte (Union Pacific train yard).
• Omaha is headquarters to Warren Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway, thus earning Buffett the nickname 'The Oracle of Omaha."
• Nebraska was the first state to complete its portion of the interstate highway system.
• The North American Vexillological Association ranked the Nebraska state flag as the worst designed flag out of 72 states and provinces in Canada and the U.S. It was adopted in 1925.
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