It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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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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Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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Lobsters have blue blood.
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Dogs have been man's pet for over 14,000 years.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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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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