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Few-Requirement-3544 t1_iwqgycb wrote

Reply to comment by ziburinis in TIL about Deaf lifeguard Leroy Colombo, who overcame childhood paralysis through swimming and saved a record-breaking 900+ lives during his career. His swimming talent and use of sight rather than sound to identify drowning swimmers allowed him to save people other lifeguards would have missed. by lemontreelemur

It was a joke based on being deliberately wrong

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ziburinis t1_iwqhums wrote

Yeah, but people constantly believe it to be true.

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