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claraalberta t1_j9oedgp wrote

Reply to comment by BirdyDevil in TIFU by not knowing what a penis looks like by nstav13

When my cat Nara (like the city) was a kitten, I had a hard time trying to figure it out. He ended up being male.

I'm now having the same issue with our newest kitten Kazuha (named after the male Genshin character and the female LE SSERAFIM member). I used a gender-neutral(?) name on purpose.

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claraalberta t1_j9aw93n wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL: The domestic cat is a revered animal in Islam and One of Muhammad's (PBUH) companions was known as Abu Hurairah (literally: "Father of the Kitten" PBUH) for his attachment to cats. by ElectroFlannelGore

It's a ritualistic cleaning, once with water mixed with soil and another seven times with just water. In countries like Malaysia there are also products like soap with the soil incorporated in it for convenience.

[The schools of Islamic jurisprudence (not to be confused with the Sunni/Shi'a denominations) disagree on whether dogs are najis (i.e. unclean). In practice, it really... depends on the Muslim whether they consider dogs unclean as a whole or by part. Growing up, I was taught the Shafi'i opinion that dogs as a whole are unclean, but in the last 10 years I had adjusted this principle to the Maliki opinion that the saliva of wild dogs are unclean.]

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claraalberta t1_j67qx33 wrote

Reply to comment by DefiantStomp in TIL about foreign accent syndrome. This is a very rare (~100 cases worldwide) but real medical condition where people abruptly begin speaking in a foreign accent following head trauma like a bad migraine, accident, or stroke. by veety

This. I used to work in customer service, and I would copy the accent of whoever I'm speaking to. Heck, I copy the accent of anyone I'm speaking to in real time. It's driven me insane because I feel like I have no accent to call "my own".

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