stackyFACTSAfter losing his legs in an accident, a railway worker successfully trained his pet baboon, Jack, to manually operate the complex track switches. The monkey worked the job for nine years, was officially paid in half-a-bottle of beer a week, and terrifyingly, never made a single mistake.
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