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Cats do know how to come down from a tree - they don't always know how to climb down backwards. If you leave a cat up in a tree long enough, even the ones that never learned how to come down will come down.
Imagine, if all domestic cats that ever got up a tree never knew how to get back down, there would be all these tiny bleached cat skeletons in tree branches/under trees all over surburbia.