Elephants can swim – they use their trunk to breathe like a snorkel in deep water.

There is a new television show on a British cable called "Watching Paint Dry". Viewers watch in real-time. Gloss, semi-gloss, matte, satin, you name it. Then viewers vote out their least favorite.

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

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