→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut The Language Made Up Entirely of Whistles https://youtu.be/4KNIDJTTR7c?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3-uys3Rl2dvdsFkk96zRbt The Biggest Nuclear Bomb in History https://youtu.be/bU1DT20Aoh4?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k In this video: Major League Baseball has been going strong now for well over a century. Many thousands of players have taken the field since the beginning of organized professional baseball, but only one, Glenn Burke, ever “came out of the closet” during his playing career, letting managers, teammates, and owners know he was gay. Burke also is noted as being the man who popularized, and possibly even invented, the high-five. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/04/the-only-major-league-baseball-player-to-openly-admit-he-was-gay-during-his-career-also-may-have-invented-the-high-five/