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Cat at the Forbidden City

... that around 200 cats (example pictured) are tasked, as "security officers", with keeping mice out of the Forbidden City?
... that the lyrics in Conan Gray's song "People Watching" were based on things he heard while eavesdropping on couples?
... that Lydie Pongault was appointed to the Congolese government to fill the roles of two other ministers?
... that the gray stonecrop was little known in the 1970s but became so popular by the 1990s that demand exceeded supply?
... that using samples provided by Johann Jacob Ferber, it was demonstrated that mosaics at Pompeii were made with glass paste, not stone?
... that seven U.S. prosecutors resigned in protest over the Eric Adams corruption case?
... that Abbess Ruothild wrapped the body of Saint Fara in a silk covered with bare-breasted Amazons?
... that Ethan Hawke and Devery Jacobs smoked CBD while filming the Reservation Dogs episode "Elora's Dad"?
... that when someone accused George Chapman of basing his translation of the Odyssey on a Latin translation, he called them an "envious Windfucker" in the preface?