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As animal lovers, one of our favorite things in the world is hearing about awesome animal stories. It could be wholesome stories of animals adopting humans or incredible and heroic stories of animals saving humans, like that parrot who saved its owner from a fire. It could be stories of little hard-working doggos being the best employees in the world.

But what about the slightly less grand stories? The short and mildly interesting animal stories are worth hearing about too - the little things can be just as amazing as the grand things, and the subreddit r/mildlyinteresting definitely understands that. So, it's time to appreciate the little things and allow ourselves to be mildly amused by the animal world and its shenanigans. 

Our world is truly an insane one - full of so many incredible things to know. We read and read, but no matter how many lists of awesome animal facts and stories we click on, there will forever be more to know. 

No matter how many articles about underappreciated and unknown animals we read, how many articles of exceptional and distinct animals we learn about, how much love we give to the coolest animals out there, there is just so, so much to learn. 

Today, you're going to learn just a little bit more, with this fresh WTF fun facts list from the amazing wtffunfacts account on Instagram. We love learning more things about animals, and because you guys love animals just as much as we do, we know that you feel the same way. So, please, learn and enjoy!

There are so, so many things that we don't know about animals, no matter how many things we listen to, how many cool animal facts we read, some things about the animal kingdom will forever remain a mystery. Well, today, with the help of factsweirdon Instagram, we will be revealing some of those animal secrets you haven't known.

Just... please be prepared, because some of these facts and stories are more weird than anything else. You're gonna take a whole journey today, from reading interesting animal facts, to wholesome and heroic animal stories, to... one sentence long stories that will take you on a book's length worth of plot. It's gon' be fun. Enjoy!

Optical illusions happen when our eyes try to play tricks on our brain... or is our actually when our brain plays tricks on our eyes? Either way, it always interesting when we have to take a double-take because we think we may have seen something impossible. Could it really be a dog with two heads? Or two identical pups? If you're like me, you'll be pleased by either outcome.

It's been a hot minute since our minds were last blown by some thought-provoking, head-scratching shower thoughts! 

We decided to go see what was recently new in the popular subreddit, r/ShowerThoughts, and did not leave disappointed. Shower thoughts are essentially this generations' most insightful thoughts, all in one forum. There's a shower thought that blows our minds! 

Which thought below was really eye-opening for you? For us, the butterfly and moth one was truly eye-opening. 

Whale, whale, whale, if it isn't another thread viral animal thread... we love those! It all started with a viral tweet from Twitter user Mx. Leah Velleman, in which they brought up the fact that Europeans avoid using the word "bear" in fear of summoning them. Instead, they call them "brown one" or "honey-eater." Pretty interesting right? And we thought we were superstitious!

Turns out, there's an even more wild European theory about evil whales, from Iceland. If this isn't already fascinating to you, we're not quite sure how to help you because, friends, this is about as cool as it gets. Get yourself ready to go deep diving into the depths of the unknown! 

Welcome back to Koty Vezde's cat universe! You may be familiar with this artist's unique style... to photoshop a cat's head onto any and every animal imaginable. 

Koty Vezde is what the people need and what the people deserve! We cannot get enough of seeing what different animals would look like if they had a cat's head. Most of the time, it turns each animal into something really heckin' cute. And other times.... just kidding, there are no other times -- every animal with a cat's head is really heckin' cute! Don't believe it would be? Take a gander below and report back to us with an apology. 

Follow Koty Vezde on Instagram to see all the newest cat-face transplant photoshop work!

There are all kinds of important Twitter accounts out there! For example, there are the wholesome 'Thoughts of Dog,' and 'We Rate Dogs,' but what about cats? 

Twitter account, 'Is there a cat in this movie?' is providing the public with very valuable information. Do you ever stop and wonder if a cat is within a movie or not? This account provides the answer, and a word to the wise, if a cat is featured within a horror movie, purrhaps it's best to stay away from that particular film. 

This Twitter account is very important indeed, if we're ever on the fence about seeing a film and then find out a cat will appear at some point, consider us sold! Thank you. 'Is there a cat in this movie?' for providing the public with such a valuable service, we are forever in your debt! 

Have you taken a mind-blowing epiphany shower as of late? No worries if you haven't because we're bringing that shower to you! 

We were searching through this month's most recent and most insightful thoughts from the Reddit forum, r/ShowerThoughts, a place where this generation shares all its mind-blowing epiphanies in one place, which is quite frankly another thought that blows our minds. 

We love some mind-shattering animal thoughts! Which thought below was really eye-opening for you? 

Dogs are magical creatures sent to us to help guide us and this thing we call life. They are the purest animals with the biggest hearts and we just hope they know how much we adore them. 

All dogs are good dogs. One Twitter user, @DrBenKatz, came across a very important (and very cute) research studies on whether or not dogs can recognize other dogs, merely by sight. After all, there are so many different types of breeds out there, do dogs recognize those dogs to be dogs as well? And the research progress in order to experiment with this question is so heckin' adorable we just don't know what to do with ourselves. If all research could be like this, we might have become scientists ourselves!