The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi.
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Camels and llamas can cross breed. The offspring is called a ‘Cama’.
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Travis was a chimpanzee who socialized with humans since birth. He could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch TV using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner's horses, water plants, and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
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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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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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Using a remote-controlled camera, biologists caught dolphins getting high by sucking on puffer fish. They were even caught passing the puffer fish around.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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