In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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Travis was a chimpanzee who socialized with humans since birth. He could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch TV using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner's horses, water plants, and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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