Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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There's a young hippo and a 130+ year old tortoise in a Kenyan wildlife preserve who are best friends and they even sleep and play together.
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Alligators can live up to 100 years.
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Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
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By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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