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...that John Baldwin (pictured) named the city of Berea, Ohio after a verse in the Bible, and was only granted the naming rights after a coin flip?
...that the Toledo, Ohio native football player Jim Detwiler refused a recruiting trip invitation to Ohio State prompting a tonguelashing from Woody Hayes for disloyalty to Ohio?
...that although Ohio State Buckeye Archie Griffin defended the Heisman Trophy in 1975, Michigan Wolverines football player Gordon Bell won the 1975 Big Ten rushing championship?
...that Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio became lit with electric street lights as early as 1879?

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