10 Weird Facts<br />About Cats In honor of International Cat Day, here are 10 weird<br />things you might not have known about your feline friends. 1. Due to a genetic deficiency,<br />cats don’t have the proper taste<br />buds to detect sweetness.<br /> 2. The frequency of a domestic cat’s purr is between<br />25 and 150 hertz, which is the best frequency for<br />improving bone density and possibly healing fractures.<br /> 3. Although cats drinking milk from saucers is common<br />imagery, most cats are actually lactose intolerant.<br /> 4. Cats have 300 million neurons in their<br />cerebral cortex, which is twice as many as dogs. <br /> 5. An average healthy cat can jump<br />nearly six times its body length, which<br />is about 8 feet in a single bound. 6. With more than 200 million odor sensors, a cat’s<br />sense of smell is 14 times better than a human's. 7. A group of cats is commonly known as a clowder.<br /> 8. With the help of 32 muscles, cats<br />are able to rotate their ears 180 degrees.<br /> 9. Male cats tend to be left-paw<br />dominate while female cats are more<br />likely to be right-paw dominate. 10. On average, cats sleep between 12-16 hours a day,<br />which adds up to about 70 percent of their lives.
