The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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Cats recognise the voice of their owner, but never evolved to care.
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Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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The Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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Sergeant Stubby was the only war dog to be promoted to sergeant through combat in WWI. He saved his regiment from surprise mustard gas attacks, found and comforted the wounded, and even once caught a German spy by the seat of his pants, holding him there until American Soldiers found him.
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