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TIL Black People Were Actually Placed in Zoos

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wpXM TIL a Buffalo Sabres goalies had his throat slit open with a skate. The only reason he lived was because of the team’s athletic trainer, that was a previous army medic, who put his hand inside the goalie’s neck, pinched off the severed blood vessel and waiting for doctors to arrive.
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