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TIL that cats (once they outgrow their kitten phase) don’t “meow” to communicate with each other. Meowing is reserved for communicating with their humans.

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GYBg1 TIL that until 1999 in Germany, bribes were a tax-deductible business expense, and there were no penalties for bribing foreign officials. The German company Siemens used to engage in bribery in developing countries, where bribery was common, and continued to do so after criminalizing it in 1999.
jNOj TIL Voltaire’s last words, in response to being asked to renounce satan were, “Now is not the time for making new enemies”
ArE7 TIL That Spy Kids 1-4, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Machete, and Planet Terror are all based in the same Universe.
epw6n TIL one of the moons of Mars (Phobos) orbits Mars much faster than Mars rotates, and completes an orbit in just 7 hours and 39 minutes. From the surface of Mars it appears to rise in the west, move across the sky in 4 hours and 15 minutes, and set in the east, twice each Martian day.
Wl4L TIL that one of the two Lesbians to win the Nobel Prize in Literature was a man. Odysseas Elytis, who won in 1979, hailed from the Greek island of Lesbos.