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TIL Chimpanzees and other apes can be born with a defect similar to Down Syndrome.

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rR6Rx TIL that the Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind will be in the Public Domain in 2020.
kJVZ5 TIL Greyhound aka Dog racing is still around in the US with only two active tracks, both located in West Virginia.
peeQ TIL that The Great Sphinx of Giza is not located in a remote region of the Egyptian desert; rather, it stares directly at a Pizza Hut and KFC located in what has become a suburb of Cairo.
9Xb6 TIL that because Japanese sentences end in auxiliary verbs, which are limited compared to English which ends in verbs and nouns, Japanese rappers had to be very creative to make verses rhyme
7Eox TIL that there is a classified airline called “Janet” that operates out of Las Vegas’ McCarran Airport which transports contractors and government workers to and from the Nevada National Security Site (Area 51).