Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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Cymothoa exigua is a type of parasite that enters through fish's gills, eats their tongue, and then replaces it.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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