It has been scientifically proven that owning cats is good for our health and can decrease the occurrence of high blood pressure and other illnesses.

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Cats come back to full alertness from the sleep state faster than any other creature.

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Cats have 3 eyelids.

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Female felines are \superfecund

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When a domestic cat goes after mice, about 1 pounce in 3 results in a catch.

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Edward Lear, author of "The Owl and the Pussycat", is said to have had his new house in San Remo built to exactly the same specification as his previous residence, so that his much-loved tabby, Foss, would immediately feel at home.

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In Holland’s embassy in Moscow, Russia, the staff noticed that the two Siamese cats kept meowing and clawing at the walls of the building. Their owners finally investigated, thinking they would find mice. Instead, they discovered microphones hidden by Russian spies. The cats heard the microphones when they turned on.

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Cats can judge within 3 inches the precise location of a sound being made 1 yard away.

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Cheetahs do not roar, as the other big cats do. Instead, they purr.

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The cat's footpads absorb the shocks of the landing when the cat jumps.

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A cat's whiskers are thought to be a kind of radar, which helps a cat gauge the space it intends to walk through.

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Baking chocolate is the most dangerous chocolate to your cat.

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The earliest ancestor of the modern cat lived about 30 million years ago. Scientists called it the Proailurus, which means “first cat” in Greek. The group of animals that pet cats belong to emerged around 12 million years ago.

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A cat’s heart beats nearly twice as fast as a human heart, at 110 to 140 beats a minute.

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Cats have 30 vertebrae (humans have 33 vertebrae during early development; 26 after the sacral and coccygeal regions fuse)

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The cat's tail is used to maintain balance.

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Cats have about 130,000 hairs per square inch (20,155 hairs per square centimeter).

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A cat uses its whiskers for measuring distances. The whiskers of a cat are capable of registering very small changes in air pressure.

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Every year, nearly four million cats are eaten in Asia.

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When your cats rubs up against you, she is actually marking you as \hers\" with her scent. If your cat pushes his face against your head"

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A cats field of vision is about 185 degrees.

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An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles (eight kilometers) away.

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Unlike humans, cats do not need to blink their eyes on a regular basis to keep their eyes lubricated.

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Some common houseplants poisonous to cats include: English Ivy, iris, mistletoe, philodendron, and yew.

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Cats respond better to women than to men, probably due to the fact that women's voices have a higher pitch.

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