The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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There's a young hippo and a 130+ year old tortoise in a Kenyan wildlife preserve who are best friends and they even sleep and play together.
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