Top 10 facts about mice

The date of November 18, 1928 was chosen as Mickey’s official date of birth

FOUR score and seven years ago, our animators brought forth on this world a new mouse. Today is officially the 87th birthday of Mickey Mouse.

 

1. The date of November 18, 1928 was chosen as Mickey’s official date of birth as it was the day of the launch of Steamboat Willie, his official debut. 

2. Actually Mickey had already been seen in a test screening of Plane Crazy in May 1928. 

 

3. Someone with MICE after their name may be a Member Of The Institute Of Civil Engineers.

4. The Australian house mouse is thought to have arrived in the country on British convict ships in the late 18th century. 

 

K Home Office statistics report that, 3,045,690 mice were used in scientific experiments in 2013

 

Someone with MICE after their name may be a Member Of The Institute Of Civil Engineers

 

5. When Doug Engelbart invented the computer mouse in 1963, he called it an “X-Y position indicator for a display system”.

6. There has been a long argument over whether the plural is “computer mice” or “computer mouses”.
US students for a long time favoured mouses but mice now leads by about 10 to one. 

 

7. UK Home Office statistics report that, 3,045,690 mice were used in scientific experiments in 2013.

8. The word for fear of mice is musophobia. 

 

The word for fear of mice is musophobia

 

The Australian house mouse is thought to have arrived in the country on British convict ships

9. The word for pertaining to, or characteristic of mice is murine. 

10. Disney originally intended to call his mouse Mortimer, but his wife Lillian preferred “Mickey”.