In the 1960s, there was a huge popularization of cat wrestling in the United States. It was a pretty big thing and the industry was worth about a quarter of the human wrestling industry during those years. However, due to the Hippie culture and animal activists, laws were created that essentially made cat wrestling illegal. The telling "cats have 9 lives" actually comes from one of the most famous wrestling cat named "Garfield" which survived 9 close to death situations in his wrestling career. In 1978, Jim Davis, who was a huge fan of cat wrestling during his childhood, re-popularized the name "Garfield" by starting a comic about a cat named the same as the famous wrestling cat. This helped the previously tainted name associated with animal violence to be cleansed and be associated with humor, Mondays and lasagna!
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if you didn't know darf is a reference to a special type of gold fish called the darfians which are small magenta fishes located in the southern ocean
sadly, they went extinct because of constant hunting due to their unique sugary taste