Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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Mosquitoes don't just bite you, they also pee on you.
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Cymothoa exigua is a type of parasite that enters through fish's gills, eats their tongue, and then replaces it.
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Crows living in some urban areas drop nuts into traffic to let the passing cars crush them, then they wait for the red lights to stop the traffic so they can grab and eat it.
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Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and sharks.
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