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“It's pretty widely held that Shipwreck Kelly was the guy…” — Stuff You Should Know at 14:27

“It's pretty widely held that Shipwreck Kelly was the guy who started the flagpole sitting craze. Right. And it was a craze because this is a time where you could go sit on a flagpole for 13 hours and 13 minutes and newspapers around the country would pick up the story and write about it. And you would suddenly become…”

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