Alligators can live up to 100 years.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
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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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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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