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A convicted burglar serving 160 years in North Carolina begged to be sent back to Canada—his home country—because he wasn’t even a U.S. citizen. Three years later, the state granted his request and he returned to Toronto. Meanwhile, a century ago, Duke biologists baffled by a tailless puppy sparked scientific curiosity, and in 1999, Henry Frye became North Carolina’s first Black chief justice—a milestone born from decades of racial exclusion. Three wildly different stories that remind us history is full of unexpected turns.

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