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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Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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Dolphins sometimes have fun by blowing bubbles and creating rings of air underwater, which they then swim through.
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An Indian man known as "Snake Manu" can put small snakes, including deadly cobras, into his mouth and pass them out through his nose.
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