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

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Bg0OD TIL that the game-opening jingle to Konami's 1981 Sega arcade classic "Frogger" was based on an existing real song INU NO OMAWARISAN (犬のおまわりさん) composed by Yoshimi Satō in 1960.
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