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TIL of Merlin a cat capable of purring 67.8 db(A) loud - about as loud as a vacuum cleaner

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naYB TIL when Juan Belmonte, famous spanish bullfighter, learned of his friend Ernest Hemingway’s suicide in 1961, He replied “Well done”. He would kill himself less than a year later.
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