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TIL Charles Burgess Fry most famous for captaining the English cricket team has also appeared in an FA cup Final for Southampton and equalled the world record for long-jump. Fry also published 9 books and was given the rank of captain in the RNR and also reputedly turned down the throne of Albania

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