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... that Methodist minister Ephraim Kingsbury Avery is amongst the first clergymen known to have been tried for murder in the United States?
... that statues of The Boy with the Leaking Boot are found in Cleethorpes (England), Winnipeg and Toronto (Canada) and several cities in the United States, but his origins are obscure?
... that Charlie Grant nearly broke baseball's color barrier decades before Jackie Robinson when John McGraw disguised him as a Native American named "Charlie Tokohama"?
... that when the first Green Island Light was destroyed by fire, the keeper and his family survived by huddling in an outhouse?

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