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TIL that cats and dogs prefer to listen to species-specific music that sounds grating and unnatural to the human ear. They may not like ordinary human music!

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nWLaB TIL - Venus is the only planet that doesn't spin counterclockwise
d4k7 TIL the Navy SEALs that killed bin laden got stealth series fleshlights as a ‘thank you’ from the company.
XEkpj TIL William Hare and William Burke ran a boardinghouse where they murdered the tenants and sold the bodies to anatomy schools for dissections. After murdering 16 people and being detained, Hare confessed and was offered immunity. Burke was sentenced to hang and his corpse was publicly dissected.
Z8Nwo TIL in 1927, during the worst flood in the history of the Mississippi River Valley, Herbert Hoover and the Red Cross set up "concentration camps" comprised of African Americans forced to work at gunpoint on the levee, and created a media campaign to cover it up.
7rjL TIL that it is still possible to lease a rotary phone from AT&T