Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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Dogs sometimes fake being sick to get attention.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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Blue whale arteries are large enough for humans to swim through and their hearts are the size of cars.
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The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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All pandas are ‘owned’ by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years.
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