Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
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There's a young hippo and a 130+ year old tortoise in a Kenyan wildlife preserve who are best friends and they even sleep and play together.
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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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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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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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The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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