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TIL The football huddle was created by deaf players so they could sign to each other about plays without the opposing team seeing.

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JpRv TIL that the star and crescent on the Turkish flag are unrelated to Islam. Instead, they represent the ancient Turkic sun and moon deities, Gün Ana and Ay Ata.
aw1Zy TIL: There's a tiny chunk of Russia located two countries west of Russia. Like East Germany, it's land the Red Army conquered in the last year of WWII. Unlike East Germany, the Russians are still in control of the ex-Prussian/ex-German area of Königsberg --called since WWII the Kaliningrad Oblast.
x6pYb TIL Robert Remus AKA Sgt. Slaughter from the WWE never served in the military despite his character's gimmick. He received several Vietnam War draft deferments and even opposed the war, often protesting and demonstrating within the antiwar movement.
M4m0 TIL Astronaut Steven Swanson – a big Firefly fan – took copies of Firefly and Serenity to the ISS in 2007 and added them to the space station’s movie library.
Bgd6r TIL that Dr. Seuss created the word NERD in "If I Ran the Zoo), which is no longer being published.