Ants began farming about 50 million years before humans thought to raise their own crops.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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On some poorly researched trivia lists it is stated as a fact that a pregnant goldfish is called a twit. This is not true as goldfish lay eggs.
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The Chow and the Chinese Shar-Pei are the only dogs that have black tongues.
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An elephant trunk has no bone but 40,000 muscles.
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The two oldest cats on record lived to 38 and 34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli and coffee.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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