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State nicknames often have fascinating and sometimes surprising origins. Michigan is known as the Wolverine State, but ironically, there is little evidence that wolverines ever lived there in significant numbers. The most popular theory is that the name originated during the 1835 Toledo War, a heated border dispute with Ohio. Ohioans began calling their northern neighbors (Review) "wolverines" as an insult, comparing them
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