It has been estimated that a bite from a grizzly bear can crush a bowling ball.
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Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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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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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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In 1955, the citizens of São Paulo were so upset with their government that they elected a rhinoceros named Cacareco (meaning rubbish) to the city council in protest, with over 100,000 votes.
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