Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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There's a young hippo and a 130+ year old tortoise in a Kenyan wildlife preserve who are best friends and they even sleep and play together.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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Drivers kill more deer than hunters do.
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A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
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