All the Trivia You Could Ever Hope to Find about CATS!
The
first true cats were found 12 million years ago, at the start of the Pliocene
Period.
The
first tamed cats were used for pest control, probably around 3,000 BC in
ancient Egypt.
The
oldest known fossilized record that has a similarity to today's cats has
been aged as 12 million years old.
The
ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat, which still exists
today.
In
ancient Egypt, entire families would shave their eyebrows as a sign of
mourning when the family cat died.
The
Ancient Egyptian word for cat was mau, which means "to see."
In
ancient Egypt, cats were mummified; and embalmed mice were placed with
them in their tombs.
Morris,
the 9-Lives cat, was discovered at an animal shelter in New England.
Ailurophobia
is the fear of cats. Julius Caesar, Henry II, Charles XI, and Napoleon
all suffered from this and would nearly faint in the presence of a cat.
Nostradamus
the French Astrologer, 1503-1566, had a cat named Grimalkin.
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