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10 Interesting Facts About Cats

1. A group of cats is called a “clowder.”

10 Interesting Facts About Cats
2. A cat’s jaw can’t move sideways, so a cat can’t chew large chunks of food.

3. A cat can jump up to five times its own height in a single bound.

10 Interesting Facts About Cats

4. Cats make about 100 different sounds. Dogs make only about 10.

5. Approximately 40,000 people are bitten by cats in the U.S. annually.

10 Interesting Facts About Cats

6. In 1888, more than 300,000 mummified cats were found an Egyptian cemetery. They were stripped of their wrappings and carted off to be used by farmers in England and the U.S. for fertiliser.


7. Unlike dogs, cats do not have a sweet tooth.

10 Interesting Facts About Cats

8. Isaac Newton invented the cat flap. Newton was experimenting in a pitch-black room. Spithead, one of his cats, kept opening the door and wrecking his experiment. The cat flap kept both Newton and Spithead happy.

9. Approximately 1/3 of cat owners think their pets are able to read their minds.

10 Interesting Facts About Cats

10. A cat has 230 bones in its body. A human has 206. A cat has no collarbone, so it can fit through any opening the size of its head.

10 Interesting Facts About Cats
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