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TIL that cats only learnt to 'meow' for humans. Cats naturally communicate mostly through scent, then through facial expression, complex body language and touch.

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yVooX TIL that on having your 7th child in Germany, you can apply to have the president be their Godfather.
epdg TIL Bayer sold millions of $ of blood-clotting medicine for hemophiliacs with a high risk of transmitting AIDS to Asia & Latin America in the mid-80s, while selling safer product in the West.
ADjQg TIL in 2006, a man hired a hitman to kill his wife. His wife strangled the hitman.
LX9r TIL that Cannabidiol, a chemical extract from cannabis, is the first nontoxic substance found to fight aggressive metatastic breast cancer cells.
WkyvB TIL there was a lunar eclipse during the Siege of Constantinople in May 1453