Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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An Indian man known as "Snake Manu" can put small snakes, including deadly cobras, into his mouth and pass them out through his nose.
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