Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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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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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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The Pistol Shrimp can snap its claws together to create a sound of 218 decibels, louder than as supersonic jet at full speed. It only lasts for 1 millisecond. The snapping action also creates a bubble that is greater than 5000 Kelvin, close to the surface temperature of the sun.
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The head of a jellyfish is called the "Bell."
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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An alligator can go through 2,000 to 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.
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