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GAG74 TIL About Hyraxes: Fanged African Mammals Resembling Marmots, but which are Far More Closely Related to Elephants and Manatees!
kJeKE TIL that Elephant Shrews were thought related to shrews and given the name Elephant to describe their long noses. It was later found that they are more closely related to Elephants than Shrews.
5V9Qr TIL that Rüppell's griffon vulture has the highest documented altitude of any bird at 36k feet. Unfortunately this information was discovered after a Boeing 747 took the bird into the engine over western Africa.