The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.
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The widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle built a house with mazes and dead-end staircases to confuse the ghosts of the people who were killed by her husband's rifles.
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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.
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Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
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