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The elephant is the largest terrestrial animal on earth.
The elephant is the largest land-mammal.
The elephant is the second tallest member of the animal kingdom--only the giraffe is taller.
The elephant has "knees" on all four legs.
The elephant cannot jump.
The term "Jumbo" comes from the elephant Jumbo, who after Angola, France and England, was sold to P.T. Barnum (The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus ) in U.S.A. Jumbo died in St. Thomas Ontario, Canada.
September 22nd is Elephant Appreciation Day.
The first Allied bombs to fall on Berlin did NOT kill the zoo's only elephant (But Siam was the only elephant who survived the bombings in 1943).

Interestingly, most World War II "trivia" sites inaccurately repeat the myth that "The first Allied bombs to fall on Berlin killed the zoo's only elephant." The truth is that the Berlin zoo never had only one elephant, and the bombs that fell on the city in 1944 killed seven of the zoo's elephants, leaving Siam the sole surviving pachyderm. Somehow, this has been distorted over time and the myth has been turned into "amusing" trivia for war buffs. Curtis Christopher Comer

(Curtis Christopher Comer has written a book called "The Elephant Gate: the Story of Siam, the Last Elephant in Berlin")

Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2024). Trivia. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=17. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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