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grdjb TIL: The football huddle was first invented by a deaf college team (Gallaudet University) in 1894 to keep the opposing team (also deaf) from reading their plays which were signed in ASL
xVNr1 TIL that while American Sign Language is NOT universal and vastly different than even other English speaking countries, it is similar to French Sign Language because of frenchman Laurent Clerc who helped found the first school of the Deaf in America.
lonRa TIL all diplomas earned by graduates of Gallaudet, university for the deaf, are signed by the presiding President of the United States.