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TIL actress Dana Plato appeared on the Howard Stern Show in 1999. Recovering from past drug addiction, she was shamed and pressured by the host and the callers, some who doubted her sobriety. She commited suicide the next day by prescription drug overdose.

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QJRwp TIL of the violent episode of the civil rights movement, the Orangeburg Massacre. On February 8, 1968, a civil rights protest at South Carolina State University turned deadly when 3 young men were killed, 28 people wounded, shot as they fled the assault by law enforcement.
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