Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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There's a competition in Sweden called Kaninhoppning, or rabbit show jumping.
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Cats are one of the only animals to domesticate themselves and approach humans on their own terms.
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