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From a smart cup that tracks everything you drink, to manatees that swim by farting, here are 11 things we didn't know last week.

Each piece of information about this xenophobic rodent is worse than the last, but you cannot stop reading

They're closely related to porcupines and guinea pigs.

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The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber), a hairless rodent that lives in the arid areas of eastern Africa, is one of the strangest-looking creatures in the animal kingdom. But what it lacks in looks, it makes up for in extraordinary biology. A team of researchers has discovered that these wrinkled rodents may have more in common […]

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