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Cats sweat through the pads of their feet (especially when they hear a dog barking) and cannot taste sweet things
Cat’s urine glows under a black-light. (But did you reeeeally want to know this?)
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten (unsure)
Cats have 32 muscles in each ear
Cats can hear ultrasound which is often used to repel them
There are about 9 million cats in the UK
The Mammal Society says cats kill around 275 million prey items a year, including over 55 million birds. Voles and other small mammals make up much of the remainder

When the cd was invented, it was decided that a cd should be long enough to hold beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at any tempo which was precisely 72 minutes

A raisin in a glass of champane (or any soda water) will continuously bounce up and down from the bottom of the glass

Chess was invented in Iran
There are more than a thousand trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion ways a chess game can be played. ( 10¹²⁰). That is more than the number of electrons in the universe
The Queen in chess was originally a male prime minister and could only move 1 square diagonally. Her power grew during the Renaissance period.
The folding chess board was invested by a priest
The rook is named from an Arabic word rukh, meaning chariot. During the Middle Ages, when chariots were no longer in use, the rook was gradually modified to look more like the turret of a castle.
The word “checkmate” comes from the Persian phrase “shah mat,” which means “the king is defeated.”
Lewis Carrol’s novel “Through the Looking Glass” was based on a chess game, much the way “Alice in Wonderland” was based on playing cards

A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
A chicken’s heart beats 300 times a minute
Hens can lay an egg a day, with the world record held by a White Leghorn who laid 371 eggs in 364 days!
The first domestic chicken was the Gallus Gallus over 8000 years ago
America eats 8 BILLION chickens a year
Hens lay bigger and stronger eggs if they think a day is 28 hours long
Chickens actually have different clucks for different predators
Most chickens live in China
The chicken is the closest living relative of the T-rex
The US National Chicken Council =D estimated people to consume 80 pounds of chicken per person per year. Beef if 63 pounds
The waste produced by 1 chicken in its lifetime can generate enough electricity to run a 100 Watt bulb for 5 hours

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproductiion
Rice was an ingredient used in making the foundations of the Great Wall of China
In China, there are over 50 different ethnic groups including Mongols and Manchurians
China has had a government since 1766 B.C., and it one of the oldest institutions in the world
Shanghai is the biggest city in the world, holding almost 16 million people
China is the largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world, with reserves of over 680 Million Kilowatts
China has a “one-child” policy where couples will need to pay fees to have more than one child
Chinese families often have nicknames for members at home such as Niu (cow), Tu (rabbit) and Xiong (bear) so that evil spirits are not attracted to the child
Although China covers over 9 million kms, it only has one timezone. As such, people in the west only get daylight at 9am in the morning
China has the world’s largest population of donkeys
China invented toilet paper
The chinese word for Portugal (Pu Tao Ya) means “Grape teeth”
Apricots originated from China
Disney characters were onced banned in China for over 40 years
Soccer was invented in China with the first football game recorded as early as 4BC
If all the peopled named Wang in China formed their own country, they would be the world’s 12th most populous nation (93 million) (The Times UK)

There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script. (I could have sworn it was more.)