A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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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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Penguins have a gland above their eye that turns saltwater into freshwater.
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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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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An alligator can go through 2,000 to 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.
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A tortoise named Adwaita lived to 255 years old. To put it into perspective, he was born before the United States of America existed and his death was announced on CNN (1750-2006).
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