Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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A giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
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To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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The difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of living tissue and bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
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One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
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