This zoo in Germany cares for disabled animals ❤️❤️❤️
u/pumpingphil — 8 hours ago
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For National Deaf History Month, Disney released a newly animated version of “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” where the characters use ASL.
u/EphemeralTypewriter — 9 hours ago
🔥 a 17-year-old lioness survived for 5 years with blindness because her daughters refused to abandon her
u/yungandreww — 5 days ago
Did you know that Louis Braille was drafted in 1829? (random fact about Louis Braille I found out reading his biography)
According to Mellor's biography, A Touch of Genius, Louis Braille was actually called up to the conscription offices. See, back then it was customary for young men at that age to be called up to service, so when he (then an instructor at the Royal Institute for the Blind) was called in, his father had to basically pick him up and take him to the conscription offices to go, 'Does he look like he can use a gun, gents?!' before they filed him off as 'Exemp, being blind at the Hospital of the Quinae-Vingt'. Louis went back to his work and the rest was history.
Got any cool/random facts about disabled figures of history y'all wanna share?
u/linkthereddit — 9 hours ago
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A post about the time Robert Wadlow filed an $100,000 defamation suit in 1939 after a libelous article was written and released about him by so called “giant expert”, Charles Humberd.
u/EphemeralTypewriter — 1 day ago
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Robert Wadlow (1918-1940) was a famous advertiser that was well known for his tours with the International Shoe Company and for his gentle nature. He had a pituitary gland disorder and recognized as being the tallest person in recorded history at 8’11 (2.72 m)
u/EphemeralTypewriter — 1 day ago
Did you know that Ralph Teetor (1890-1982), the man who invented cruise control, was visually impaired?
u/EphemeralTypewriter — 2 days ago
Terry Fox (1958-1981) was a famous Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist, who had to get his right leg amputated when he was 19 years old. In 1980 he started the Marathon of Hope as an effort to raise money for cancer research.
u/EphemeralTypewriter — 3 days ago
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A cute picture of Pete Moore (bottom right), his wife Adena (top), and his two children. They look like such a happy family, and Pete looks so proud!
u/EphemeralTypewriter — 3 days ago
Acromegaly is a rare hormonal condition that is caused by an overproduction of growth hormone within the body. Some public figures who were diagnosed with the condition include Mary Ann Bevan, Robert Wadlow, and Sandy Allen.
u/EphemeralTypewriter — 5 days ago
The football huddle was invented in 1894 by Paul Hubbard, a deaf football quarterback, who wanted to prevent the opposing team from seeing him use American Sign Language to plan out his team’s next moves.
u/EphemeralTypewriter — 11 days ago