In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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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 first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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