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TIL that 15 years ago, Berkeley Researchers recovered "typed text using audio recording of keystrokes"

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Q68E TIL that in an 8-hour day, the average worker is only productive for 2 hours and 53 minutes.
OR7L TIL of the mutation gynandromorphism. It is a mutation in which half an organism is male, and the other half is female. It is usually split vertically and is estimated to occur in 1 in 5000 birds.
gr5bX TIL that in the event of a U.S. military draft, members of the Florida State Guard (a state-level Civil Defense organization) are immune from conscription
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