The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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The world’s largest frog, the Goliath frog, can grow over 13 inches in length and can jump up to 10 feet in a single bound.
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15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.
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It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure!
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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A tortoise named Adwaita lived to 255 years old. To put it into perspective, he was born before the United States of America existed and his death was announced on CNN (1750-2006).
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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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