Amazing Cat facts

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• Ailurophilia is the word to define "love of cats."
• Ailurophobia means Fear of cats.
• We have around 500 million domestic cats in the world, with 33 different breeds.
• A cat's heart beat is twice as fast as our heart beat, at 110 to 140 beats per minute.
• The largest cat breed is the Ragdoll. Males weigh twelve to twenty pounds where as the females weigh around ten to fifteen pounds.
• The smallest cat breed is the Singapura. Males weigh about six pounds while females weigh about four pounds.
• There is one breed of cat called Calico cats who are almost always female.
• Cats usually wag their tails when they are in a stage of conflict.
• An average cat has 1-8 kittens per litter, and 2-3 litters per year.
• During her productive life, a female cat can give birth to more than 100 kittens.
• In 1952, a Texas Tabby named Dusty set the world record by giving birth to more than 420 kittens. The largest known litter (surviving) was that of a Persian named Bluebell. Bluebell gave birth to 14 kittens in one litter!
• A single pair of cats and their kittens can produce as many as 420,000 kittens in just 7 years. Cats have 290 bones in their bodies, and 517 muscles.
• A cat does not "meow" at another cat. This sound is reserved for humans.
• The lifespan of an indoor cat is 15 years, while the average age for an outdoor cat is only 3 to 5 years. Puss was the world's oldest cat. She died in 1939 after celebrating her 36th birthday.
• A cat's normal body temperature is 101.5 degrees which is slightly more than humans.
• Towser, a tortoise-shell tabby in charge of rodent control in Scotland, killed 28,899 mice in her 21 years career.

Source : http://www.cat-guide.org