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TIL cats only meow to humans & dont meow to each other

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OoV1L TIL The entire world was saved from Nuclear obliteration by one Russian lieutenant colonel named Stanislav Petrov in 1983 by trusting his gut and not firing retaliatory nuclear strikes after a satellite had a false positive that America was sending 4 nukes their way.
jN6OQ TIL that spiders can fly for miles and have been found 2.5 miles above earth surface.
J1rQB TIL Tony Kaye, director of American History X, despised the final cut so much that he spent $100,000 on ads criticizing Edward Norton and the producers. He also tried to have his name replaced with "Humpty Dumpty" and sued for $200 million when refused, effectively ending his Hollywood career.
wOG8 TIL of the Parsley Massacre, a government-sponsored genocide of ethnic Haitian civilians in 1937. Dominican soldiers would hold up a sprig of parsley to someone and ask “What is this?”; how the person would pronounce the Spanish word for parsley would determine his/her fate.
gMwm4 TIL of the class of lizards classified as "legless." As in, they're literally legless. They differ from snakes as the arose from a completely different evolutionary pathway.