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

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awW5Z TIL In 1964 British marines were given LSD and as result ended up laughing and lost all sense of urgency with one of the men joyfully climbing up a tree
WVpo TIL that during WWII, the Russians used a biplane on the Eastern Front that was so slow, German planes could not actually target it without potentially stalling.
eXvb TIL In 1996 as a hoax, Taco Bell printed in six major American newspapers that it had bought The Liberty Bell and was renaming it The Taco Liberty Bell.
N7446 TIL Steinway & Sons (1853) pianos are handcrafted and take a year to build. The company's 600,000th piano was built in 2015 with an inlaid Fibonacci design in the lid. It is valued at $2.4 million.
LkvP0 TIL that the first public listed company, the Dutch East India Company is also the most valuable company in history. at it's peak, it was worth what is now $7.9 trillion. for comparison, Apple is worth $1.3 trillion.