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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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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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 Lion's Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago).
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Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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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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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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