Dogs have been man's pet for over 14,000 years.
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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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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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The octopus does not have a blind spot.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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