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TIL Cpl Tony Stein earned the medal of honor by creating a hybrid Machine gun which quickly ran out of ammo. Kicking his shoes off, he ran back down to the beach eight times to get fresh ammunition. Each trip back, he carried a wounded Marine on his back

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OoYK6 TIL of Anders Haugen, the only American to ever medal in ski jumping. He finished 4th in the 1924 olympics, but when a historian reviewed the results 50 years later he found a scoring error. Shortly thereafter, Anders went to Norway at 86 years old and was awarded his long overdue bronze medal.
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