The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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When a drone bee mates with a queen, its ejaculation is so powerful that it can even be heard by the human ear.
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Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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Dogs have been man's pet for over 14,000 years.
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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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