There's a wife-carrying contest held in Finland and the prize is wife's weight in beer...

Did you know most cats sleep with one eye open and sometimes both? come see!

Norway knighted a penguin! <3

"Brigadier Sir Nils Olav III is a king penguin who resides in Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland. He is the mascot and colonel-in-chief of the Norwegian King's Guard."

In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig. They are very social creatures and the Swiss government says this in its Animal Protection Ordinance:

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Fun fact: Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.

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Sharks don't have just 'rough skin' nor 'scales' really, it's actually something called dermal denticles that are like millions of tiny teeth covering their body. Toothy animals for sure!

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Cool fact: Dolphins have names for one another

Weird fact: Horses are distantly related to Rhinos and Tapirs

the polish army once enlisted a bear named wojtek and got promoted to corporal

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Shakespeare's skull is missing from his grave. No one knows when exactly it was stolen or where it may be now.

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Interesting fact: Python (the programming language) was named after Monty Python

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Giraffes are mute O3O

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'Herodotus wrote in 440BC that when a pet cat died in Ancient Egyptian times the family members would shave off their eyebrows in mourning.'

Elephants are the only animal that can't jump!

Did you know that the fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion been confused at a crime scene.

Fun Florida Fact:

No matter where you are in Florida you are never more than 60 miles from the Ocean.

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From 2007 to 2015, a cat named Tama was stationmaster in a small train station in Japan, a train was also designed in her honor.

Even when you close your eyes, you can still see a glimpse of light or grayness called phosphene.

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random fact - since I like Stephen King books and movies. How many Stephen King books are there and he has published fifty novels which is heaps

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Fun fact: There were female gladiators called gladiatrices.