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TIL that Cooperstown, NY is named for the father of James Fenimore Cooper, who wrote the Leatherstocking Tales (including Last of the Mohicans). It's more famous for being the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame, but was placed in Cooperstown based on a now discredited myth.

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