Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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The male seahorse carries babies and 'gives birth' to them instead of the female.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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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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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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