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TIL Cats rarely meow at each other, it was rather developed exclusively to communicate with people

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YAw7 TIL that a hemorrhoid cream company once tried unsuccessfully to use Johnny Cash’s ‘Ring of Fire’ in a commercial.
8W9L TIL when the second plane hit the WTC on 9/11, NYC TV station WPIX’s transmission facility was destroyed in the explosion. As a result the channel was stuck showing the exact moment the plane hit the South Tower for the whole day.
wROE TIL that after his presidency, Harry Truman refused to join any corporate boards or do commercial endorsements, feeling that using the presidency for financial gain would diminish the integrity of the office. Congress eventually passed the Former Presidents Act to pay him a pension.
b6ZR4 TIL of the Order of Malta Passport. It's the rarest passport in the world and is only issued to a few hundred people.
vPQ5r TIL in 1992, about 70 youth members of the Eclaireurs de France, a French scouting association, descended on the Cave of Mayrières supérieure with steel brushes to clean up graffiti, erasing two 15,000-year-old cave paintings of bison before realizing what they were.