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TIL that Chimpanzees can have "Down Syndrome" or trisomy 22

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8e9mK TIL That a US postal worker out on disability for her shoulder was charged with fraud after being seen on The Price is Right spinning the big wheel, twice.
4XG4a TIL comic Andy Kaufman's 4-F deferment for the draft concluded that Kaufman lived in a fantasy world, disconnected from reality, and if put in the military would "lose his mind". He loved the letter and proudly displayed it as he had purposely treated his psych eval as a high-stakes joke.
6EDmw TIL that typing 40 WPM(words per minute) on a QWERTY keyboard is above average. But you can take it even further by learning steno type. A trained typist reaches 226+ WPM with 360WPM being the record.
kJBeE TIL that “I Will Always Love You” was originally written and recorded by Dolly Parton in 1973 as a farewell song for her business partner.
olR TIL it’s the FCC that bans cell phone use on airplanes, not the FAA