The Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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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 domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.
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Travis was a chimpanzee who socialized with humans since birth. He could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch TV using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner's horses, water plants, and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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There's a lizard known as the 'Jesus Lizard' that can run across water.
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