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TIL that the phrase "Cat in the Cradle" came from a Dutch tale where a cat saved a baby by sailing with it on its cradle in a 1421 flood. There is a town named Kinderdijk (children dike) with a bronze statue of the cat's cradle and the baby Beatrix de Rijke.

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