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TIL Deaf people each have unique “name signs” given by a friend or family member, and per the culture only a deaf person can give a hearing person their own special name sign

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xOn5 TIL when Christopher Reeve was in ICU after his spinal injury, Robin Williams surprised him by dressing up as proctologist. Reeve wrote “"For the first time since the accident, I laughed.”
R7WOj TIL: When the Nazis and the Vichy government began arresting and deporting the Jews, Si Kaddour Benghabrit Imam of Grand Mosque de Paris made it a sanctuary for endangered Jews. By offering them shelter; and giving them fake identity certificates, to prove they were Muslims, not Jews.
MeK0A TIL Roman soldiers were given one pound of meat daily. For an army 120 sheep were killed a day just for the meat ration. Or 60 hogs. Huge flocks of livestock were herded and grazing alongside an army. Roman soldiers were a mule more than anything else. They carried very heavy gear, on bad roads.
EgJ7 TIL that the composer of some of the most beautiful Renaissance madrigals was a mass murderer
0dvEj TIL following the destruction of the Iberian city of Illiturgis by Publius Cornelius Scipio in 206 BC, the people from the neighbouring city of Astapa–knowing they faced a similar fate, decided to burn the city with all of its treasures and then kill themselves.