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TIL of Feodor Protar, "The Saint of Beaver Island". A European actor who came to a small island in Lake Michigan to seek enlightenment. However, he ended up becoming a doctor to the locals who lacked one, despite having no formal medical training. When he died, they built a tomb and monument for him

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