Aaron's Interesting mice facts

1. Did you know: You can keep mice on a table without a cage because mice are afraid to jump off high vertical drops.

2. Mice can make their own vitamin C.

3. Mice like hard bread.

4. Mice will nurse babies that are not their own.

5. Baby mice curl up when they are being carried.

6. People worshipped mice in temples. (I doubt your mom would make you go to church if that was the only kind in town.)

7. Greeks and Indians thought mice were lightning bolts. (The way I figure it, mice had shorter legs back then, so their bellies rubbed the ground to make static electricity.)

8. Japanese bred white mice 300 years ago. (no comment)

9. People have bred blue mice. (Don’t ask me how. I’m not that much of a genius).

10. Mice don’t have roots on their incisors.

11. The name mouse comes from "mus", a Sanskrit word that means thief.

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