Random Animal Facts

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    Domestic pigs average a top speed of about 11 miles per hour.
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    Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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    Raccoon Dog
    Raccoon Dog
    The raccoon dog is a wild animal in East Asia which looks like a raccoon but is actually a dog.
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    It's possible to train your cat to use the toilet as a litter box and even flush afterwards.
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    A puppy is born blind, deaf, and toothless.
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    Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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    Free Willy
    Free Willy
    After being in captivity for 23 years, the orca from Free Willy, Keiko, was set free in 2002. Weeks later, he appeared at a Norwegian fjord apparently seeking human contact and even gave rides to children on his back.
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    It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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