Pigs

• Entertain your pig — it'll pay off at the market. Bored pigs are slow to gain weight, according to a University of Missouri swine study.
• Pigs are the only animals that can be sunburned the way people can be sunburned.
• Pigs' tails curl clockwise and counterclockwise at random in both hemispheres.
• Certain sailors a century ago believed that you couldn't drown if you had a tattoo of a pig on one foot and of a rooster on the other.
• You can paper-train a baby pig in just three days.
• The dividing line in weight between a pig and a hog is 110 pounds.
• The French use only female pigs to sniff our truffles. Seems those musty truffles smell like male pigs in a mating mood.
• No pig is depicted in any Egyptian tomb painting. Apparently pigs didn't have enough class.
• The formal name for a group of swine is a sounder.
• The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina. He weighed 1,904 pounds in 1939.