A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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Sharks have been on the planet longer than trees.
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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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In 2011, a male tiger in India adopted a litter of orphaned cubs, taking on the role of ‘mother’. Wildlife officials say such behavior had never been observed before.
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