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TIL Koko the Gorilla who knows sign language is still alive, teaching sign, and playing with her pet cats

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87bZ TIL Getting a blowjob in a car is illegal in 13 states, with 15 years to life being the most severe punishment in the state of Michigan.
oe88 TIL that the trajectory of the first American manned spaceflight was calculated by an African-American woman. She was so good at computations that she was asked to check the work of the computers when they were first used by NASA to calculate John Glenn’s flight path.