Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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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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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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