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NEW YORK – Rev. Al Sharpton didn’t appear to have much in common with the late Sen. Strom Thurmond.

Thurmond ran for president in 1948 as a segregationist. Sharpton ran for president in 2004 calling for racial equality.

But last week Sharpton learned the two did have a connection after genealogists found he was a descendent of a slave owned by relatives of Thurmond in South Carolina.

“It was probably the most shocking thing in my life,” Sharpton said at a news conference Sunday, the day the Daily News reported the link.

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Have you ever gotten up off the couch to get a beer for the umpteenth time and thought, “What if instead of ME going to get the BEER, the BEER came to ME???” Well, that was how I first conceived of the beer launching fridge. About 3 months and several hundred dollars later I have a fully automated, remote controlled, catapulting, man-pit approved, beer launching mini-fridge. 

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