Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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Alligators can live up to 100 years.
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The difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of living tissue and bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
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Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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When a male gentoo penguin "falls in love" with a female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva while grooming themselves as they do through urination!
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Dolphins can rapidly heal from extreme injuries, such as shark bites, and regenerate their original body shape.
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