Mosquitoes don't just bite you, they also pee on you.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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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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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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Dolphins have names for one another.
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