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TIL There is a wheelchair tennis player who is on a 457-match winningstreak. She won 42 grand slam titles & 5 Paralympic titles and is often mentioned as the most dominant player in professional sports.

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QJgOe TIL that the football huddle was invented during the 1890’s by the quarterback of the all deaf Gallaudet College football team so that the players from the opposing teams wouldn’t be able to read the plays as they were signing them to each other.
RXX1 TIL similar to the “Amber Alert” program, most states also have a missing persons recovery program called “Silver Alert”, which is designed to help find missing senior citizens with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or other mental disabilities.
ADBZx TIL A WW2 German captain had the proposed name of his vessel rejected so he called it Götz von Berlichengen because GvB was quoted in Goethe as saying "Kiss my arse". The rejected name; Michael.
dVJj TIL the 125 ton restaurant at the top of the Space Needle rotates using a 1.5 hp electric motor.
vP4Jr TIL A monument in Kyoto contains severed noses from 38000 Koreans and 30000 Chinese from a Japanese invasion in the 1590s. No Japanese textbook mentioned it until the 80s, after a publisher resisted pressure from the ministry of education to use a softer tone and praise the invasion leader Hideyoshi