TIL that a physicist made his cat the co-author of his scientific paper to avoid replacing "we" with "I" throughout his paper.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1jb9BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA6&dq=F.D.C.+Willard&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uFwmVdbRKI32aMT8gXA&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=F.D.C.%20Willard&f=false



Submitted April 09, 2015 at 05:32PM by Tentinator http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/31zm96/til_that_a_physicist_made_his_cat_the_coauthor_of/