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Fun Facts:
- Pigs love to snuggle closely while they sleep but they prefer to sleep nose to nose with each other.
- Pigs dream just like humans.
- Pigs communicate with each other nonstop.
- Pigs are known to be sloppy eaters and dirty animals, but these statements are actually false. They love to eat slow and enjoy their food. If in the right environment pigs will stay clean by eating and sleeping in different areas.
- Humans have 9,000 taste buds, pigs have a whopping 15,000 taste buds.
- A healthy adult pig can run 11 miles per hour.
- There are 2 billion pigs on earth.
- People who are allergic to cats or dogs sometimes resort to a pet pig due to the lack of hair/shedding and they are easy to train.
- There are twice as many pigs as there are people in Denmark (as of 2019 Denmark’s total population is 5.78 million.
Joke of the day:
What’s a pig’s favorite color?
Ma-hog-any.