Did you know: Pigs don’t ‘sweat like pigs’

Alexander the Great reportedly used pigs as a counter attack to elephants, since elephants were terrified of pigs' loud squeals

Pigs were the first animals to be domesticated

The first book on pig farming was written by Chinese Emperor Fo Hi in 3468 BC, but historians theorise that pigs were domesticated about 6,000 years ago. The first pigs came to America in 1539 with the Spanish Explorer Hernando de Soto.