It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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There’s a bonobo named Kanzi who has learned to build a campfire and cook his own food.
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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.
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Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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