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I came across a fun site listing 46 surprising cats about cats. And boy did some of them surprise me. Here are a few of them:
Cat owners are 40% less likely to have a heart attack and 30% less likely to have a stroke. Now that’s comforting.
A cat’s nose pad is unique to each cat, just like the fingerprint is to a human.
In Russia, there’s a museum that employs 70- stray cats to keep mice from chewing on the artwork.
A cat can have up to 100 kittens in a lifetime. Yikes!
Black cats are considered good luck in some parts of the world.
Housecats get the majority of their DNA from the Middle East.
There’s a cat with a masters degree. They used Colby Nolan (the cat) to help with an
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investigation into phony degrees and this cat earned one with a 3.5 grade point average.
Purring is thought to help a cat regenerate his bones.
Cats sleep 70% of their life.
The oldest living cat was Crème Puff who lived to be 38 years old on a diet of eggs and broccoli.
In Belgium in 1837 they hired cats as mail carriers. Evidently, it didn’t work out very well, though.
There’s one story of cats that ended a war and another of a cat who survived three warship disasters and ended up defecting to the other side.
Learn more of these surprising facts about cats here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliegerstein/46-surprising-cat-facts-thatll-make-you-say-huh?utm_term=.kh7Orlr6e#.ckkw9x9lY
