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

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lynA TIL that all presidents and first ladies have secret service protection for life, and further that any children of former presidents get secret service protection until they turn 16.
ZgKv TIL that in 1963 there was a Canadian band called “Four Niggers and a Chink”. They broke up in 1969 and then got back together in 1990. In 1990 they went by “Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers”.
nW4d TIL hair length is significantly correlated with female attractiveness because it reveals several years of a person’s health status, acting as a cue signifying reproductive potential.
gMG5y TIL a study in 2014 found dog lovers are more energetic and outgoing and also tend to follow rules closely. Cat lovers, on the other hand, are more introverted, more open-minded, more sensitive, and non-confomist.
4X4Y6 TIL that up until the 1600s, a “black swan” was a metaphor for something that did not exist. Then a group of Dutch explorers became the first Europeans to see black swans in Western Australia in 1697, and the phrase was amended to mean “a perceived impossibility that might later be disproven.”