A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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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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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
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Dolphins have names for one another.
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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
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