Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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The reindeer is the only mammal that can see UV light.
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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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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