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A Renaissance painter invented a brush made from cat whiskers. Which is why cats still act like they own museums.

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No Renaissance painter is known to have invented a brush from cat whiskers. Artists' brushes of that era were typically made from animal hair such as squirrel, hog bristle or sable, tied to wooden handles.

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