When Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
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Mosquitoes don't just bite you, they also pee on you.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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