DID YOU KNOW??

•        The huddle formation used by football teams originated at Gallaudet University, a liberal arts college for deaf people in Washington, D.C.(to prevent other schools from reading their sign language)
•       Eric Clapton, The Who musician Peter Townshend, The Beatles Sir George Henry Martin and The Beach Boys Brian Wilson are deaf.

•         Deaf people have SAFER driving records than hearing people nationally
•       The Major League baseball player William Hoy, played for the Cincinnati Reds was deaf and he invented the hand signals for strikes and balls in baseball.
•         John Gregg, the man who invented shorthand, was deaf
•         When Beethoven created his ninth symphony, he was profoundly deaf.
•         Statistics prove that deaf people live longer than hearing people.
•         Deaf people develop keener senses of observation, feeling, taste and smell to compensate for their loss of hearing.
•      Deaf people appreciate advice or warnings regarding any noises that bother hearing people.
•       Alexander Graham Bell who originally invented the telephone, was an instructor for deaf children and invented the telephone so that his wife and mother who were deaf to help communicate, was a mistake, he tried inventing a hearing aid
•         Approximately 1.6 million people in South Africa use Sign Language as a first language, that’s higher than those who speak 4 of the 11 official languages
•       People use some sort of sign language when scuba diving because they couldn’t talk underwater, and even the military when planning on surprising the enemy

*i love you in sign language*

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1129722/interesting_facts_about_people_who_pg2.html?cat=4