High Fives
Secretly Incredibly Fascinating
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The History of the High Five
There's written evidence of black people innovating this coming up with it as early as 1938. The oldest words for them are five on the black hand side, which is slapping the backs of your hands together There's giving five on the slide, which is slapped five around and behind your back. They also varied it up and gave five below that level and they called that a low five before we invented the high five.
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