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Which writer's house-museum has more than 50 cats, half of which have extra fingers?

Ernest Hemingway had a weakness for cats and constantly kept several pets in his house. Once he was given a Maine Coon named Snowball, who, due to a genetic mutation, was polydactyl, that is, he had extra toes on his paws.

Today, there are more than 50 cats living in the Hemingway House Museum, half of which are also polydactyls, as many are descendants of Snowball.

A significant part of tourists visit this museum primarily because of cats, and not in order to join the writer's legacy.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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In ancient Rome, when certain events were prepared in the Colosseum, announcements about this were hung all over Rome. When printing developed in the XNUMXth century, it became much easier to reproduce messages and advertisements. Some of them were handwritten ("handwritten bills"), and some were pasted on walls and fences.

The modern advertisement as we know it began with the invention of lithography in 1796. This made it possible to supply ads with colored pictures.

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