The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
9
If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
256
A man named Heraclitus had an illness that made his body swell up with water. To try to sweat it off, he buried himself in a steaming pile of animal poo, but then overheated and died of dehydration.
18
In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks washed off a ship. They were found thousands of miles away 8 years later.
707
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
927
Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
66
There is a family with a genetic condition that makes their skin blue, who have been isolated in rural Kentucky for generations.
34