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• ... that friends of the family raised $3,500 for Laurie Phenix to travel to the 2000 Summer Olympics and see her daughter Erin Phenix win a gold medal?
• ... that Euclid Beach Park, an amusement park in Cleveland, Ohio that was modelled after Coney Island, was home to a race riot in 1946?
• ... that college basketball player Evan Turner was the only unanimous first-team All-Big Ten Conference choice by both the coaches and the media for the 2008–09 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season?
• ... that actress Evelyn Venable, the voice of the Blue Fairy in the animated film Pinocchio, was the original model for the Columbia Pictures logo?