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TIL that while American Sign Language is NOT universal and vastly different than even other English speaking countries, it is similar to French Sign Language because of frenchman Laurent Clerc who helped found the first school of the Deaf in America.

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8a7PV TIL about Jahangir Khan: A Pakistani squash player who won the World Open 6 times and went undefeated from 1981-1986, winning 555 games in a row which is the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records.
Eg6Po TIL Tiger Woods has a total of 20 hole in ones in his career but he went a full 2 decades between numbers 19 and 20 (1998-2018).
aYrM TIL that “herbs” are only from leaves of plants, and that “spices” are from everything but the leaves.
Wk5QY TIL: New Mexico was actually named 223 years before the country of Mexico was established.
1aZyP TIL that the inventor of Vaseline, who lived to be 96, swore that eating a spoonful of Vaseline each morning was beneficial to health.