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Jul 18, 2020

TIL that Félicette, the only cat to survive a spaceflight, was honored in 2019 with a memorial at France's International Space University.

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Jul 14, 2020

TIL of Felis nigripes: the African Black-footed Cat, aka "the deadliest cat on earth", weighing in at under 5 lbs. It kills 10 - 14 rodents or birds per night to satisfy its accelerated metabolism. The Black-footed Cat has a kill rate of 60%, whereas a lion's kill rate is about 25%.

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Jul 01, 2020

TIL a Russian cat was used by prisoners to sneak drugs into their penal colony near Moscow. The cat allegedly had 5.79 grams of hashish & 1.56 grams of amphetamine under its collar. Defense/prosecution lawyers each wanted the cat to support their case but it escaped from its kennel before trial.

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May 27, 2020

TIL Cat mummies were so plentiful in Egypt that, in the 1800s, an English company bought a load of 180,000, pulverized them and spread them on farm fields as fertilizer. Also so many baboons and ibises were mummified for the trade it likely drove them to extinction in Egypt.

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May 22, 2020

TIL Jaguars once roamed throughout the Southwestern US and as as far east as Arkansas and Louisiana. In 2016, one was spotted in Arizona.

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May 14, 2020

TIL a 20-pound Himalayan house cat went batshit crazy and held a family hostage in their bedroom

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Apr 23, 2020

TIL there was a cat named Oscar (Unsinkable Sam) who survived 3 shipwrecks in WW2. At one point he was found clinging to a piece of wood floating in the water and when found he was described as “angry but quite unharmed”.

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Apr 05, 2020

TIL cats have contributed to the extinction of at least 63 global vertebrate species, deemed one of “the most ubiquitous and environmentally damaging invasive predators on Earth", while new studies shows cats are ineffective when it comes to catching rats.

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Mar 21, 2020

TIL in the efforts to capture a man-eating tigress, Indian wildlife officials used the perfume Obsession for Men by Calvin Klein as bait. The perfume contains a pheromone called civetone, which a US study found to be attracting to jaguars.

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Jan 21, 2020

TIL in the 1870s, the city of Liège, Belgium hired 37 cats to deliver mail. It was unsuccessful.

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Dec 06, 2019

TIL that dung beetles, when placed in a planetarium behave with a sense of direction only under specific constellations. This would indicate that they celestially navigate.

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Oct 13, 2019

TIL Pets can be allergic to human especially cats, just like we can be allergic to them.

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Aug 13, 2019

TIL Tama, the Japanese Stationmaster Cat was granted the posthumous status of Shinto goddess. Around 3,000 people attended her funeral.

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Jun 27, 2019

TIL that a woman named Angela adopted a cat and named her Missy. Missy pawed at Angela's chest and Angela felt that was not right and went to the doctor only to reveal that Angela had cancer. A year later Missy pawed Angela's chest again and tests revealed cancer again.

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Jun 14, 2019

TIL cougars are the largest cat to meow/purr. Large cats that roar are incapable of making these noises due to tough cartilage that prevents the larynx from vibrating.

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May 17, 2019

TIL that in Russia. A cat saved an abandon baby by covering him and keeping him warm and meowed loudly to get the attention of a passersby.

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Apr 28, 2019

TIL there is a 1420 book that was found to have cat piss on one of its pages. The author of the manuscript even wrote on the page "Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer... and beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come."

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