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| Missouri Facts |
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The present Capitol was completed in 1917 and occupied the following year is the third Capitol in Jefferson City and the sixth in Missouri history. |
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On June 20, 1955, the flowering dogwood (Cornus Florida L.) became Missouri's official tree. |
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Missouri ties with Tennessee as the most neighborly state in the union, bordered by 8 states. |
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