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jjrrad t1_ishsow9 wrote
Reply to comment by JJohnston015 in TIL in 1976 , LA Dodgers catcher Steve Yeager was impailed in the throat by San Diego Padre's Bill Russell's broken bat, resulting the the MLB issuing a throat guard rule for catchers. by superfly355
To protect him in the future from errant foul balls while he’s catching.
jjrrad t1_j5vlkb9 wrote
Reply to comment by BostonUniStudent in TIL that the civilian ship pilot in Dunkirk is based off a real person - Charles Lightoller, the second officer of the Titanic who sailed his own ship to save 127 servicemen at Dunkirk by flotiste
The boy who gets killed in the movie is not the son of the civilian pilot but a friend.