Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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A puppy is born blind, deaf, and toothless.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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A dork is a whale's penis.
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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Bats sleep 18-20 hours per day.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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