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TIL about Chai Ling, a student leader during the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. She advocated to continue protesting until a bloodshed would change China, but when interviewed before the incident about whether she herself would attend the protests, she answered no, cause she wanted to live.

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pY8lO TIL golf champion Ben Hogan was in a near-fatal car crash. Hit head on by a bus, Hogan threw himself in front of his wife to protect her, that saved him from being impaled by the steering wheel. After 2 month in the hospital and multiple surgeries, Hogan won 6 more majors, including 3 in one year.
5G1D TIL that the Soviets found that sniper duties fit women well, since good snipers are patient, careful, deliberate, can avoid hand-to-hand combat, and need higher levels of aerobic conditioning than other troops.
yQ17J TIL Actor John Wayne attended USC in the 1920s, and played on the football team. He got injured surfing and could no longer play football, losing his athletic scholarship. Without funds he had to drop out of school. Wayne went to work at the studios, beginning with a summer gig in a prop department.
nek7o TIL that in the 1960s, Mister Rogers launched George Romero's career, by giving him his first job after he arrived in Pittsburgh. Mister Rogers supported him and watched Night of the Living Dead, and Dawn of the Dead, and told George they were "a lot of fun".
1adr8 TIL before switching to satellite radio, Howard Stern was the most fined radio host by the FCC, racking up over $2.5M in fines for indecent language.