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Mental Floss: 36 facts about cats

If there’s thing we know about the internet, it’s that the internet loves cats. But how much do you, Mr. and Mrs. Internet, really know about cats? However much you think you know about the internet’s favorite pet, we’ll bet you didn’t know all of the 36 facts about cats in this video.

This is John Green of the blog Mental Floss. Green’s whole job is to find the most obscure, interesting, or just plain weird facts about — everything. But we don’t need to know about everything. We only need to know about cats.

For instance did you know:

Pet cats outnumber pet dogs in the United States 88 to 74 —million, that is.

The brain of a cat shares 90 percent of its characteristics in common with the human brain. That’s more than dog brains.

 A typical house cat can run faster than any human being who ever lived — over 30 miles pert hour, in short bursts.

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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.