The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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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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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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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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The difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of living tissue and bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
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A group of pugs is called a grumble.
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Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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When Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
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