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- Laika the dog, was the first living thing sent into orbit
- Not mentioned was that Laika died within 7 hours of launch. This fact was only revealed almost 50 years later
- A human’s scent membrane in the nose is about the size of a postage stamp. A dog’s is about the size of a handkerchief. It’s olfactory lobe is also 4 times that of a human. Thanx liz chell
- It has been reported that some dogs are able to sniff out skin cancer. It’s in a journal on Lancet
- Since you started reading these facts, 3000 puppies were born in the U.S.A
- At birth, a dalmatian puppy is always pure white
- Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian
- Dogs and cats consume more than US$11 billion worth of pet food a year
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