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TIL that cats try to manipulate us by meowing in a way that sounds like a baby crying.

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kBvE TIL The U.S. dumped 20,000 pounds of pure sodium into a Washington lake to dispose of a surplus.
nDOo TIL there is a man wandering through the Amazon rainforest thought to be the last member of his tribe. No one knows his language or what tribe he belonged to.
BbPr TIL that “Arabic numerals” are actually “Hindu numerals” and Arabs call the system, correctly, “Hindu numerals.”
gMZv9 TIL that Steve Carell had only seen about half of the original pilot episode of the British series before he auditioned for The Office. He did not continue watching for fear that he would start copying Gervais's characterizations
grnw7 TIL Security Guard Joseph Trombino barely survived an infamous 1981 NY robbery of a Brink's Armored Car. Nearly a decade later, he would then go on to also barely survive the 1993 World Trade Center bombings but tragically died on Sept 11 2001 in the WTC North Tower