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This 900-word article lists some of the weirdest facts about farm animals. It includes thirty facts about pigs, horses, cattle, chickens, turkeys, and sheep. It includes interesting trivia about cows committing murder, the oldest horse, the truth about horse statues, and more.

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Do you know which where the term chicken pox came from? How about which farm animal is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex or what mental disease causes a man to think he is an ox? You can find the answer below as well as some other amazing facts that you might not have known about pigs, horses, cattle, chickens, turkeys, and sheep.

1. The tongue of a pig has six thousand more taste buds than a human’s. Humans have 15,000 while pigs only have 9,000.

2. Pigs and light-colored horses are the only two mammals besides humans that can get sunburned.

3. Pigs have been rated as the fourth most intelligent animal in the world, and are believed to be as smart if not smarter than dogs.

4. In truth, “to sweat like a pig” would mean that you do not sweat at all. Pigs have no sweat glands.

5. If a pig was able to fly, other pigs would be unable to see him. Pigs are incapable of looking up.

6. The average horse eats seven times its own weight in food each year.

7. Horses live about thirty years. However, an English barge horse named “Old Billy” was sixty-two years old when he died and is the oldest recorded horse.

8. If a female horse and a male donkey mate, the offspring is known as a mule. If a male horse and a female donkey mate, the offspring is known as a hinny. Both mules and hinnies are usually sterile.

9. The number of hooves raised on a horse statue does not indicate how the rider died. The common belief was that two legs raised indicated the person died in battle, one leg raised indicated the person died from wounds they received in battle, and no legs raised indicated the person died from natural causes. However, this belief can be applied to most of the statues located at Gettysburg National Park.

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