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TIL of Betty Robinson, an Olympic runner who was involved in a fatal plane crash in 1931 and was wrongly pronounced dead upon first being discovered. It took 2 years for her to regain the ability to walk again, but in 1936 she rejoined the US Olympic relay team and took home the gold medal.

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