When you shave a guinea pig it looks like a little hippo.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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On some poorly researched trivia lists it is stated as a fact that a pregnant goldfish is called a twit. This is not true as goldfish lay eggs.
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Sandy, an African Penguin, has been in 'love' with her keeper at the Nuremburg zoo since 1996.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and sharks.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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