The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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Domestic pigs average a top speed of about 11 miles per hour.
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Meysi is one of the world's smallest dogs, measuring in at just 7cm tall, 12cm long, and weighing a meagre 250 grams (only slightly heavier than a hamster!)
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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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