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TIL that cats have accents. Phonetics researchers have suggested that cats and their humans develop a “pidgin language” together to communicate, which may influence regional variations in cat vocalizations.

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gej4 TIL That vikings would use stones with polarization properties (like Iceland Spar) to navigate when the sun was not visible.
DL0V TIL it is estimated that 40% of all humans to have ever been born did not live past their first birthday.
YpymP TIL Led Zeppelin bought their private jet “The Starship” for part of their 1973 US tour for $30,000. Drummer John Bonham once flew the band from New York to LA even though he didn’t have a pilot’s license.
N7Ryb TiL The Soviets Reversed engineered an air to air missle when in 1958 a MiG-17 hit by a American Sidewinder missle survived the impact and returned to its base with the missile still embedded in it.
bgL7 TIL that starting in 1992, a group of activists began publishing Continuum, a magazine that denied the existence of HIV/AIDS. It ceased publication in 2001 after all of its editors died of AIDS-related illnesses.