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A Tweet from Quite Interesting made the claim "In 1879 the city of Liège in Belgium employed 37 cats to deliver mail to nearby villages. The experiment was unsuccessful." First off, is this true? And if true, I'd like some background on how that decision was made.

by /u/Skipp_To_My_Lou in /r/AskHistorians

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