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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A giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
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A group of kittens is called a "kindle".
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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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Mosquitoes don't just bite you, they also pee on you.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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