By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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Drivers kill more deer than hunters do.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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There’s a bonobo named Kanzi who has learned to build a campfire and cook his own food.
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Allegedly, Chrysippus, the Greek philosopher, died of laughter after getting his donkey drunk and watching it try to eat figs.
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The cat brain weighs about 30g.
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Tigers, leopards, and jaguars love "Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men". The scent is used to attract animals to cameras in the wilderness, and was even a turn on for one pair of Jaguars who were subject to it.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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