A commemorative tower was built in Scotland for a cat named Towser, who caught nearly 30,000 mice in her lifetime.
Cats lap liquid from the underside of their tongue, not from the top.
Many cats cannot properly digest cow's milk. Milk and milk products give them diarrhea.
Long, muscular hind legs enable snow leopards to leap seven times their own body length in a single bound.
Cats control the outer ear using 32 muscles; humans use 6
The first official cat show in the UK was organised at Crystal Palace in 1871.
A cat's brain is more similar to a man's brain than that of a dog.
A cat cannot see directly under its nose.
A cat sees about 6 times better than a human at night, and needs 1/6 the amount of of light that a human does - it has a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.
A cat can travel at a top speed of approximately 31 mph (49 km) over a short distance.
Female cats tend to be right pawed, while male cats are more often left pawed. Interestingly, while 90% of humans are right handed, the remaining 10% of lefties also tend to be male.
A cat's nose is as unique as a human's fingerprint.
Julius Ceasar, Henri II, Charles XI, and Napoleon were all afraid of cats.
Cats have supersonic hearing
The longest living cat on record according to the Guinness Book belongs to the late Creme Puff of Austin, Texas who lived to the ripe old age of 38 years and 3 days!
The cat appears to be the only domestic companion animal not mentioned in the Bible.
Fossil records from two million years ago show evidence of jaguars.
Miacis, the primitive ancestor of cats, was a small, tree-living creature of the late Eocene period, some 45 to 50 million years ago.
Cats purr at the same frequency as an idling diesel engine, about 26 cycles per second.
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.
Cats take between 20-40 breaths per minute.
In Ancient Egypt, when a person's house cat passed away, the owner would shave their eyebrows to reflect their grief.
In the 1750s, Europeans introduced cats into the Americas to control pests.
A group of cats is called a clowder.
The lightest cat on record is a blue point Himalayan called Tinker Toy, who weighed 1 pound, 6 ounces (616 g). Tinker Toy was 2.75 inches (7 cm) tall and 7.5 inches (19 cm) long.