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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.
b6Rw7 TIL - The man who unsuccessfully treated President Garfield after he was shot, Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss (First name Doctor), was expelled from the Washington DC Medical Society for his advocacy of homeopathy and his refusal to support the society's segregation of black doctors.
e9MJ TIL after 27 years in the MLB, at age 46, Nolan Ryan’s final pitch clocked in at 89 mph. He had a lifetime winning percentage of .526, was an eight-time MLB All-Star, and his 5,714 career strikeouts rank first in baseball history. Ryan also threw a record 7 no-hitters, 3 more than any pitcher.
xwj7 TIL that Florida investigators recreated a home fire to prove that a man had committed arson. Instead, they found that accidental fires could produce burn patterns that looked exactly like gasoline fires, and that signs of arson that investigators had been relying on for years were unfounded.
LQgW9 TIL that Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx corresponded during the Civil War. Marx and the International Working Man's Association in London congratulated Lincoln on his reelection and declared "the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery".