A group of kittens is called a "kindle".
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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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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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Travis was a chimpanzee who socialized with humans since birth. He could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch TV using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner's horses, water plants, and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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