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| New York Facts |
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Sam Wilson, a meatpacker from Troy, New York who's caricature Uncle Sam came to personify the United States is buried at Troy's Oakwood Cemetery. |
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The first international sports hero, boxer Bill Richmond of Staten Island, New York, was born August 5, 1763. |
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Joseph C. Gayetty of New York City invented toilet paper in 1857. |
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