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TIL about Tiddles, a tabby cat who made his home in the Ladies' toilets at Paddington Station in London. Visitors would constantly gift him choice cuts of meat, leading to staff installing a personal fridge for him. Tiddles eventually became so fat, he was described as "[...]a beach ball with fur."

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