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TIL there are wild monkeys in Florida with a herpes virus outbreak that is deadly to humans.

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b6lB7 TIL Harry Mendell invented the Melodian, the digital sampling synthesizer that Stevie Wonder featured on several albums. Mendell also helped develop Unix, and went on to contribute to the fields of global risk management, stock options trading, and machine learning.
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