An alligator can go through 2,000 to 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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When Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
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Cats are one of the only animals to domesticate themselves and approach humans on their own terms.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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All pandas are ‘owned’ by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years.
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A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
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