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TIL at one of Trumps golf courses, there’s a plaque commemorating a civil war battle that never happened

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D166Y TIL that Willie O'Ree, the first black man to play in the NHL, was blind in one eye. It was caused by a ricocheting puck that hit him in the face when he was 18 and he kept it a secret for his entire 21-year career.
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