20 Facts about Cats

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  1. Caution during Christmas: poinsettias may be festive, but they’re poisonous to cats
  2. Teeth of cats are sharper when they're kittens. After six months, they lose their needle-sharp milk teeth
  3. Talk about Facetime: Cats greet one another by rubbing their noses together.
  4. Some cats have survived falls from over 32 stories(320 meters) onto concrete, due largely to their “righting reflex.”
  5. Cats have 32 muscles that control the outer ear while humans have only 6.
  6. Cats can't taste sweetness
  7. Cats sleep for  70% of their lives.
  8. The longest cat ever measured 48.5 inches (1.23 m) when fully stretched out.
  9. A group of cats is called a clowder, a male cat is called a tom, a female cat is called a molly or queen while young cats are called kittens.
  10. Domestic cats usually weigh around 4 kilograms (8 lb 13 oz) to 5 kilograms (11 lb 0 oz).
  11. The heaviest domestic cat on record is 21.297 kilograms (46 lb 15.2 oz).
  12. Cats can be lethal hunters and very sneaky, when they walk their back paws step almost exactly in the same place as the front paws did beforehand, this keeps noise to a minimum and limits visible tracks.
  13. Cats have powerful night vision, allowing them to see at light levels six times lower than what a human needs in order to see.
  14. Cats also have excellent hearing and a powerful sense of smell.
  15. Older cats can at times act aggressively towards kittens.
  16. The oldest video of cats on YouTube dates from 1894.
  17. Owning a cat can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes by more than a third, researchers found.
  18. Adult cats only meow to communicate withhumans.
  19. The CIA spent US$20 million in the 60s training cats to spy on the Soviets. The first spy cat was hit by a taxi.
  20. In Korea and Japan, there is a Cat Cafewhere you can go to drink coffee andhang out with cats for hours.