Penguins have a gland above their eye that turns saltwater into freshwater.
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The reindeer is the only mammal that can see UV light.
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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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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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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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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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Lobsters have blue blood.
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