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TIL that Nicaraguan Sign Language was created entirely by deaf children interacting together in a vocational school for the deaf that focused on teaching lipreading & spoken Spanish.

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6E6rX TIL the difference between stamina and endurance. Stamina is the amount of time one can perform an action at maximum capacity (ex: sprinting), endurance is the maximum amount of time one can perform an action (ex: a marathon)
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