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TIL Lobsters can live to be 140 years old!

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JY4GB TIL that the football huddle was invented at Gallaudet University (a school for the deaf) to stop opponents from reading their hand signs and knowing the play.
a8ejJ TIL Sir Ludwig Guttmann, a Jewish neurologist that escaped Nazi Germany, founded what would become the Paralympic Games in 1948 with the Stoke Mandeville Games. Guttmann believed sport was a major form of therapy for disabled people
ZGGB TIL The Average Potato Has Lost 100% of its Vitamin A Since 1951
PVDn TIL that during WWII, when Japan occupied China, they built concentration camps that were filled with American, British and other European civilians living in China.
gr7xD TIL both Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were banned from baseball temporarily for signing autographs in a casino, "no place for a baseball hero and Hall of Famer."