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TIL adult cats don’t actually meow at each other, just at people

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8a5vZ TIL that Navajo language was used in the WWII by the U.S. Armed Forces in the Pacific to encrypt communications. They simply had Navajo Indians talking to each other, and since the language is exceedingly complex and has no written form, not a single person in Japan knew anything about it.
kLke TIL There is An Annual Wife-Carrying Contest in Finland called Eukankanto, Where The Reward is The Wife’s Weight in Beer
dDJW9 TIL of koumpounophobia, the fear of buttons
J1NA4 TIL that Antarctica is a desert
pYWMN TIL that there are 3 types of joint brokerage accounts - join tenants with rights of survivorship, tenants in common & community property.