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Til about "ulnar dimelia," also known as "mirror hand syndrome" those affected by it have 7-8 fingers on one hand (or both) with no thumbs.

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XEDXQ TIL that the oldest non-human primate of all time is Cheeta the Chimp, who lived to be 80 years. Becoming famous as one of Tarzan's sidekicks in the 1930s-1960s, Cheeta went on to live a happy life as an Ambassador, also playing piano and painting.
O7nL TIL In 1940 the Soviet Union shot down a civilian Finnish flight traveling from Helsinki to Tallinn. To help preserve peace the Finnish government hid the fact for over a year.
GAD6J TIL about the 1033 Program, which provides for the transfer of excess military supplies and materiel to civilian local law enforcement agencies.
0wDyR TIL that Abraham Lincoln's religious views are highly ambiguous and a matter of debate. He never joined any Church, and was a skeptic as a young man and sometimes ridiculed revivalists. Many friends and family of Lincoln rejected that he was a believing Christian.
lo15N TIL scientists discovered a dinosaur tail perfectly preserved in amber. It is full of feathers.