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Kurt Vonnegut's brother Bernard invented seeding clouds to create rain, a form of weather control that Kurt would parody with "Ice-Nine" in his book "Cat's Cradle."

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Kurt Vonnegut started a graduate degree in anthropology at University of Chicago, but dropped out. Soon after, they mailed him his degree anyway, saying his publication of "Cat's Cradle" was "halfway decent anthropology" and counted as his dissertation

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1. Kurt Vonnegut's first published novel was Player Piano, published in 1952. He would go on to write 14 novels in total including The Sirens of Titan (1959), Mother Night (1961), Cat's Cradle (1963), God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Breakfast of Champions (1973), Slapstick (1976), Jailbird (1979), Deadeye Dick (1982), Galapagos: A Novel (1985), Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1987), Hocus Pocus (1990), and Timequake (1997).

2. "Cats in the cradle" singer Harry Chapin was a dedicated humanitarian who fought to help the poor. He died when he lost control of his '75 Volkswagon, on his way to give a free concert.

3. Harry Chapin's song "Cat's in the Cradle" was based on a poem written by his wife about her ex-husband's relationship with his son.

4. Kurt Vonnegut was awarded his Master's degree in anthropology for his novel Cat's Cradle, a satirical book about science, technology, the arms race, and religion.

5. Harry Chapin landed "the largest recording contract in history for a new artist" in the early 1970's, with guaranteed free studio time. He went on to record "Cat's in the Cradle".

6. A conversation between Nobel chemist Irving Langmuir and novelist H.G. Wells became the plot device "Ice-nine" in Kurt Vonnegut's novel, "Cat's Cradle.

7. Tom Chapin, brother of the late Harry Chapin ("Cat's In The Cradle", etc) had a successful children's television show in the 1970s and inspired kids to use their imagination.

8. Ice IX, the fictional substance in Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle is based on a series of Ice phases at high pressures discovered by Percy Williams Bridgeman...Which in later years was discovered to actually exists. (Although lacking the properties in the book)

9. The 80's thrash metal band M.O.D.'s song "Ode to Harry" is about the death of Harry Chapin, writer of the song Cats In The Cradle.

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Kurt Vonnegut originally failed to obtain his master's degree from the University of Chicago after writing a failed thesis. He was known as a student of little promise. 25 years later, the institution accepted Cat's Cradle as his thesis and granted him his Master of Art.