There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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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 tortoise named Adwaita lived to 255 years old. To put it into perspective, he was born before the United States of America existed and his death was announced on CNN (1750-2006).
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Cats recognise the voice of their owner, but never evolved to care.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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