diff --git a/icu4c/source/test/testdata/emoji-test.txt b/icu4c/source/test/testdata/emoji-test.txt
index 89578d99a9..78a79761cc 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/test/testdata/emoji-test.txt
+++ b/icu4c/source/test/testdata/emoji-test.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # emoji-test.txt
 # Date: 2017-02-18, 15:26:57 GMT
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