It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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