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TIL Jack, a baboon, was employed to change rail signals. After initial skepticism, the railway decided to officially employ the baboon once his job competency was verified. He was paid twenty cents a day, and 1/2 a bottle of beer each week. In his nine years of employment, Jack never made a mistake.

p8JoO TIL Caitlyn Jenner was a race car driver.
VBngZ TIL that the first recorded vending machine was invented by Hero of Alexandria, an ancient Greek engineer, in the first century AD. It dispensed holy water in exchange for a coin.
pBmG TIL Steven Spielberg wanted to make Harry Potter an animated movie.
rN5BW TIL that only Australians do the dance to Tina Turner's Nutbush City Limits.
NJQQ TIL that the year 46 BC was 445 days long because of changes to the calendar