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4 unusual facts about Teddy Seymour


Teddy Seymour

After a two month 2,000 mile (3,200 km) journey, Seymour passed through the Strait of Gibraltar with $38 worth of food and headed for home.

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Teddy Seymour is the first black man to sail around the world solo.

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Teddy won an athletic scholarship to attend to college, and is a former All-American cross country road runner star at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio.

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The Joshua Slocum Society, the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey, Sea Magazine, St.



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