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...that Rapidan Camp (pictured), the rustic mountain fishing retreat of U.S. President Herbert Hoover located near Big Meadows, was the forerunner of Camp David in Maryland?
... that dolphins are often sighted in the estuary of the Great Wicomico River?
...that the Dunmore Pineapple was a folly where pineapples were grown in Scotland from 1761 and that it was built by the 4th Earl of Dunmore, John Murray, who later became governor of Virginia Colony in North America?
... that in his lifetime, Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times, but died from a gunshot?

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