› added 1 hour ago

TIL in the 1890’s Gallaudet University, a school for deaf and hard of hearing, invented the QB Huddle due to other team being able to read sign language aswell

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

WkEed TIL of the B612 Foundation, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to planetary defense against asteroids and other near-Earth object impacts. It is run by former astronauts and engineers who believe that Earth has a 100% chance of being threatened by a devastating asteroid at some point in the future.
4bN6 TIL the Grateful Dead hired a “soundman” and chemist, Owsley Stanley, to mass-produce LSD for the band
nenAG TIL undercover officers from two different precincts tried to arrest each other in a drug sting. Both precincts had undercover officers as drug dealers/buyers and didn't know about each other. When they tried to deal each other drugs, guns were drawn and a fight started as both claimed to be police.
EMPd TIL the National Day of Prayer, which this year is today, was unsuccessfully challenged in court by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The court said they are free to oppose it, but “they are not entitled to silence the speech of which they disapprove.”
jXwp TIL a man aspiring to become a lawyer was denied admission to the New York bar because his student debt exceeded $400,000. Five appellate judges concluded his payments had been too meager to date and thus he had not “established the character and general fitness requisite for an attorney”.