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1. Mickey’s first appearance was in Plane Crazy on May 15, 1928, which failed to find a distributor. 

2. Female mice are does, males are bucks and babies are pinkies or pups. 

3. A female mouse can begin having babies at two months of age and can give birth to up to a dozen babies every three weeks.

The earliest patent for a spring-loaded mousetrap was issued to William C Hooker of Illinois in 1894

4. A mouse’s whiskers can detect temperature changes as well as help it feel its way about. 

6. In 2008, a team from Imperial College, London infected mice with rhinovirus to produce the first lab rodents that could catch a cold. 

7. The earliest patent for a spring-loaded mousetrap was issued to William C Hooker of Illinois in 1894.

8. The European Patent Office lists 860 mousetrap patents plus 973 patents for mouse traps (two words). 

9. The term “computer mice” registers about 602,000 hits on Google, while “computer mouses” scores only 144,000. 

10. “Today if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse,” (Ronald Reagan).

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