Thursday Thirteen: Edishun 17
Thirteen Cat Fakts that I fownd online (I cut and pasted, so the speling is a littul funkey):
- The top two rows of a cat’s whiskers can move independently of the lower two rows.
- Both humans and cats have identical regions in the brain responsible for emotion.
- Cats purr at the same frequency as an idling diesel engine, about 26 cycles per second.
- A domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.
- Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva while grooming themselves as they do through urination. (That can’t be troo for Rocky the Pee King.)
- In Siam, the cat was so revered that one rode in a chariot at the head of a parade celebrating the new king. (Mao made me put that one in.)
- Some notable people who disliked cats: Napoleon Bonaparte, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Hitler. (HISSSSSSSSSS!)
- Chattam Island in the Pacific is overrun by thousands of cats–every one of them black–that live on fish.
- The Ancient Egyptian word for cat was mau, which means “to see”. (Mao made me put that one in.)
- Florence Nightingale owned more than sixty cats in her lifetime and often complained of mysterious “stains” on her paperwork.
- In 1987 cats overtook dogs as the number one pet in America.
- Cats step with both left legs, then both right legs when they walk or run. The only other animals to do this are the giraffe and the camel.
- In ancient Egypt, entire families would shave their eyebrows as a sign of mourning when the family cat died.