Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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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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One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the phone.
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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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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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