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Unbelievable Animal Facts

• Workers at a Kenyan animal sanctuary were surprised when an orphaned baby hippo chose Mzee the 130-year-old giant tortoise as its new parent.
  

• Since Owen the hippo was rescued from the sea after the 2004 Tsunami, the pair has lived, slept and played together.
  

• Staff at a British zoo had to hand-feed milk to a baby colobus monkey after it was rejected by its mother for having hiccups.
  

• A tiny frog wandered into the freezer of a cafe in Darwin, Australia and was found frozen solid. Once thawed out, it was fine. Maybe it had just gone in for a croaka cola…
  

• A German cat was sent through the post after sneaking into a parcel while its owner looked for more tape.
  

• An Australian crocodile was so annoyed by the sound of a chainsaw nearby that it ran at the man using it and grabbed it from him.
  

• A cow caused an accident by wandering into a road in Columbia and was punished by being put in prison.
  

• 200 cats brought to a Chinese village to get rid of the rat problem were rewarded for their hard work with an enormous fish banquet.
  
• A starving mouse will eat its own tail.
  

• An elderly Swedish woman took animal rescue a little too far. Police found that she had been sheltering 11 swans in her tiny Stockholm apartment for more than five years.
  

Unbelievable History Facts

• Before coins were invented, shells were used in many countries as money.
  

• The first five Tarzan films were silent. There were no Tarzan calls in those then.
  

• The three mile (5 kilometres) long tomb of Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang contains more than 8,000 life-size clay soldiers created 2,300 years ago to protect him in the afterlife.
  

• Many 19th century artists and writers living in Paris were fond of a green alcoholic drink called absinthe, also known as 'the green fairy'. It was believed to be dangerously addictive and could cause madness, so was banned in most countries in 1915.
  

• The first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, was travelsick as a child.
  

• The Chinese invented fireworks more than 2,000 years ago. The sound was created to scare off evil spirits.
  

• French artist Henri de Toulouse Lautrec broke both his legs in his early teens and they stopped growing. As an adult, he had a fully-grown torso and child's legs.
  

• Sunglasses were worn in China as early as the 12th century, using pieces of smoky quartz as dark lenses. They were worn more to conceal facial expressions during interrogation rather than for protection against the sun.
  

• Early false teeth were made from hippopotamus bone and dead people's teeth.
  

• The first living beings to go up in a hot air balloon were a sheep, a duck and a rooster in 1783.
  

• Heavy snow slowed down the normally accurate Big Ben clock in London on New Year's Eve 1962, making it announced the New Year ten minutes late.
  

• Yellow tennis balls were not used at Wimbledon until 1986. Before that they were white.
  

• Can openers were invented 50 years after tin cans.
  

• The owl was a symbol of death for the Aztecs, Mayans and ancient Romans.