Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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Cats have a weak sense of taste. They have only 473 tastebuds, humans have 9,000.
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A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
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Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.
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A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
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