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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Money-Ad7257 on 2025-01-31 00:32:25+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the first two hockey goalies to wear a mask did so in 1899. They used baseball catcher’s masks almost 60 years before Jacques Plante became the first to regularly use a mask in the NHL in 1959.