Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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Lobsters have blue blood.
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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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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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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
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