10 facts you probably did not know about cats (part 3)

Cats are one of the most popular pets in the world, no matter what culture or part of the world you were born. And because they are so popular, there are also a lot of stories that can be told when it comes to just cats!

1 / Almost all cats had short-haired fur around 100 years ago. For about 100 years, it had become a fashion and extremely popular to own a cat, which also resulted in human experimentation starting within breeding of different breeds.

2 / Have you always wondered why cats cannot chew too big pieces of food? It's just because of the simple reason that cats' jaws cannot move sideways, unlike people!

3 / One of the reasons that kittens are sleeping a lot more than grown cats is because a hormone that causes them to grow is only released during sleep. Namely; no sleep, no growing.

4 / A cat has 32 muscles that control their ears, compared to us people who only have sex. This also allows a cat to rotate its ear at 180 degrees

5 / The first cat show ever took place in London in 1871. Since then, cat shows are all over the world and people are constantly competing with their purebred cats!

6 / A memory tower called "Towser" was built in Scotland to pay a certain cat when it had gone away. The reason? During the lifetime, the cat had caught a total of over 30,000 mice! Because the village had problems with muscular invasions, it was considered something incredibly glorious!

7 / Almost a third of their awake time, the cats spend licking clean. What if we were supposed to be in the bathroom a third of our awake time?

8 / At the Embassy of the Netherlands in Moscow, Russia, the staff noticed that the two Siamese cats were constantly jam and clog the walls around the building. Their owners finally investigated the problem, but thought it was only rubbing mice in the walls. Instead, they discovered hidden microphones placed by Russian spies. The cats heard the microphones every time they hit.

9 / The cat who was able to lose kittens at the highest age ever was Kitty, who at the age of 30 was released two healthy kittens. During Kitty's lifetime, she released a total of 218 kittens! Talk about productivity!

10 / In just seven years, a couple of cats and their offspring could produce 420,000 kittens together! But that may be enough with the amount of cats we already have?

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