Sharks, like other fish, have their reproductive organs in their chests.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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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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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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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million 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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