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TIL nearly all French wine grapes are grown on vines grafted to root stock from Missouri. in the 1860s, phylloxera bugs threatened to destroy the vineyards, but roots from the US were resistant. Hundreds of thousands were shipped in and used to save the French vines.
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So *that’s* why they gave us the Statue of Liberty
Explains all that wonderful Missouri wine!
It is the garden of eden, after all.