Cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as opposed to the way dogs do it, because they have scent glands in their faces.

The first typewriter was called the "literary piano."

U.S. President John Tyler had 15 children, the last of which was born when he was 70 years old.

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