Random Facts You Didn’t Know About Rats That Will Seriously Disturb You (11 items)

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  (#4) Some Rats Have Pouches Like Kangaroos

  The giant pouched rat can grow up to 18 inches in length and weighs a little over three pounds. This particular subspecies is responsible for spreading the monkey pox and is therefore not ideal as pets. Here’s a bizarro-world fact about this rat - in addition to its easily identifiable pouch, it can also smell tuberculosis, a feature that’s astonishingly more accurate and speedy than scientific testing.
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  (#7) They Know How To Memorize

  One of the things that makes rats so intelligent is their talent for memorization. This isn’t exactly good news for rat trap setters as they tend to instinctively remember where traps are and avoid them at all costs. According to one study, rats can remember maze patterns to a greater extent than humans can recall casually exchanged telephone numbers. 
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  (#6) Some Rats Have A Heightened Sense Of Intelligence

  Rats are masterfully skilled at navigation which is why they tend to excel at mazes and other things - like, you know, spreading their global population to mind boggling proportions. Ponder this if you will - rats currently inhabit every single one of Earth’s continents except Antarctica (and who wants to live there anyway, right?). But, seriously, that’s not even the half of it. Scientists have been tinkering away at these poor rodents’s brains and now they’ve created a super-rat that was given “smart medicine” like in limitless and now has intelligence that rivals some humans. And we all thought it would be the robots who would eventually overthrow us. This definitely puts a new spin on an old nightmare. Oh and in case you were wondering, the medicine doesn't work on us pesky humans.
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  (#8) They Can Chew Their Way Into And Smell Their Way Out Of Anything

  According to extensive research, a rat’s teeth are tougher than copper and iron, possibly stronger than the Man of Steel, even (Yes, Superman. He does not have teeth this tough. We’re sure of it). As such, rats can chew their way into brick, wood, plastic, asbestos, you name it. Once inside your dwelling space, they can smell their way out of anything from land mines to garbage. Not that it would matter since feeding on garbage only serves to increase their super strength. 
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  (#3) They Can Swim Up The Toilet And Bite You

  Thinking of flushing that pesky rat in your apartment down the toilet? Well, think again. Rats don't die in the sewer system. They thrive in the sewer system. They love toilets and small spaces and they are excellent swimmers. They can tread water for at least three days on average. The urine isn't much of a turn off for them either. Typically, rats pee about 80 times a day. But, that's not even the best part. There is video footage showing rats as they make that Olympic swim through the sewer system and up into your toilet. Think about that the next time you lift the seat and squat without looking.
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  (#1) Rats Can Never Stop Chewing Because If They Stop Chewing They Die

  In case you were wondering how or why rats never stop chewing the answer is simple: teeth. A rat can live for up to seven years and for that entire time their teeth are in a continuous state of growth. In order to keep them healthy and sharp, and, of course, to avoid certain death caused by overgrown teeth, rats must chew on anything and everything they find.

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