Did you know …
That the mammal with the second largest brain (after Dall’s porpoise) is the common black rat, Rattus rattus? It’s true!
Wait! How does such a big ol’ brain, larger than a human brain, larger than a zebra brain, even larger than the brain of a blue whale, fit into the lil’ skull of a rat? Not even a Norwegian brown rat!
Ha ha! There’s no trick to it! No quantum or anything; it just goes in there like a sleeping bag, all jammed up in that little boney brain satchel. This, of course, is the main reason why you shouldn’t smash a rat in an enclosed space. I mean, you shouldn’t be smashing rats in general, unless you’re some kind of sociopath, but if you smash a rat in a too-small space, the brain, once released from the skull, will rapidly expand to it’s natural volume, and you could end up injuring yourself.
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