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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?