Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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When you shave a guinea pig it looks like a little hippo.
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Using a remote-controlled camera, biologists caught dolphins getting high by sucking on puffer fish. They were even caught passing the puffer fish around.
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Cats and dogs can hear ultrasound.
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Sergeant Stubby was the only war dog to be promoted to sergeant through combat in WWI. He saved his regiment from surprise mustard gas attacks, found and comforted the wounded, and even once caught a German spy by the seat of his pants, holding him there until American Soldiers found him.
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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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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