15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.
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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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All pandas are ‘owned’ by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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Rattlesnake mating sessions have been known to last more than 22 hours.
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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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