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TIL of “The Pittsburg Windmill”, the boxer Harry Greb who boxed with one eye after losing sight in the other due to an injury. Despite this, Greb was the only person to defeat champion Gene Tunney and was renowned for breaking the colour line by accepting challenges from African-American opponents.

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wow7W TIL that in 1857, Mormon saints killed an entire wagon train of 120 Arkansans bound for California when they passed through southern Utah. Later dubbed the "Mountain Meadows Massacre," they left only 17 survivors, all under the age of 5, and attempted to raise them in the LDS faith.
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