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The cat's tail is used to maintain balance.

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Dogs have a ligament in the neck which allows them to conserve energy while running long distances following scent trails with their nose to the ground. Many other species have a similar ligament and it is called a Paddywhack.

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Cats take between 20-40 breaths per minute.

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A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

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Dogs can learn more than 1000 words.

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A domestic cat can run at speeds of 30 mph.

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"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

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There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script.

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Over half of dog owners include their dogs in annual holiday photos.

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The dot over the letter `i` is called a tittle.

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Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.

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”Judge Judy” has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary.

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The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

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Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year

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Many foot disorders in dogs are caused by long toenails.

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The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

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The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

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About one-third of a dog’s brain is dedicated to smell.

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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.

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The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

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Children grow faster in the springtime.

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It is not possible to know how many puppies a dog will have just by looking. The appearance can be very deceptive.

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There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment.

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A dog can both sniff and breathe at the same time.

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Almonds are members of the peach family.

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The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they can be easily confused at a crime scene.

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It's illegal to spit on the sidewalk in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Small quantities of grapes and raisins can cause renal failure in dogs. Chocolate, macadamia nuts, cooked onions, or anything with caffeine can also be harmful.

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The longest place-name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiakitnatahu, a New Zealand hill.

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The site with the highest number of women visitors between the age of 35 and 44 years old: Alka-Seltzer.com

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The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P.

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A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

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40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

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The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary, because when it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

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Dogs can develop a fear of certain objects or situations if they have a negative experience with them.

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The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.

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Adult carnivorous lampreys are the most well-known species, and feed by boring into the flesh of other fish (or in rare cases marine mammals) to consume flesh and/or blood; but only 18 species of lampreys engage in this predatory lifestyle (with Caspiomyzon suggested to feed on carrion rather than live prey).

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Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote in 1869.

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On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1"encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

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Female wolves have been known to travel great distances to regurgitate full meals for their hungry pups.

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A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

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Yummy! Dogs have about 1,700 taste buds. Humans have approximately 9,000 and cats have around 473.

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There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.

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Devonian aquatic environments were also marked by placoderms and acanthodians, which are only known from fossils, however.

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Almonds are a member of the peach family.

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The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts both offer merit badges in dog care.

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Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada`s Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada`s independence.

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In early Christian tradition, Saint Christopher, the patron saint of travelers, is sometimes depicted with a dog’s head.

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Popularly but incorrectly attributed as an ancestor of all vertebrates, or the oldest fish, or the oldest ancestor of humans, it is generally viewed as a basal chordate ; it is a close relative of vertebrate ancestors but it is not an ancestor itself.

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Baleen whales range in size from the 6 m (20 ft) and 3,000 kg (6,600 lb) pygmy right whale to the 31 m (102 ft) and 190 t (210 short tons) blue whale, the largest known animal to ever exist.

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The Amazon river dolphin is the largest species of river dolphin, with many adult males reaching 185 kilograms (408 lb) in weight, and 2.

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They have unspecialized cells that can transform into other types and that often migrate between the main cell layers and the mesohyl in the process.

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5,840 people with pillow related injuries checked into U.S. emergency rooms in 1992.

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Approximately 24 cat skins can make a coat.

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In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.

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The Private Life of Plants is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first shown in the United Kingdom from 11 January 1995.

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There are approximately 100 breeds of cat.

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The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

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A female cat is called a queen or a molly.

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In space, astronauts are unable to cry, because there is no gravity and the tears won`t flow.

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A cat cannot see directly under its nose.

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Albinism can reduce the survivability of an animal; for example, it has been suggested that albino alligators have an average survival span of only 24 years due to the lack of protection from UV radiation and their lack of camouflage to avoid predators.

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He was one of Australia's first and most influential palaeontologists and zoologists, "some of [whose] observations on animals have not been surpassed and can no longer be equalled because of the spread of settlement (Rutledge & Whitley, 1974).

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The tammar wallaby is among the smallest of the wallabies in the genus Notamacropus.

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Botanist Robert Brown wrote the first detailed scientific description in 1814 although his work remained unpublished for 180 years.

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A “jiffy” is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.

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Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

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Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

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Count the number of cricket chirps in a 15-second period, add 37 to the total, and your result will be very close to the actual outdoor Fahrenheit temperature.

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The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

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They NEVER said “Beam me up, Scotty” on Star Trek.

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The U.S. military operates 234 golf courses

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The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning.

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If one spells out numbers, they would have to count to One Thousand before coming across the letter "A".

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A horse can look forward with one eye and back with the other.

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In 2017, there were 77,100 unique farms and ranches in the state, operating across 25.

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physaloides is found also in Japan, but the species is not recorded as being native in one of the few English-language floras of the country.

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While rare fossils that may represent survivors have been found as late as the Middle Cambrian (510–500 Mya), the earlier fossil communities disappear from the record at the end of the Ediacaran, leaving only curious fragments of once-thriving ecosystems.

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As the strictest of vegetarian diets, a vegan diet excludes all animal products, and can be accompanied by the abstention from animal-derived products, such as leather shoes and silk clothes.

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Introns are rare in bacteria and archaea (prokaryotes).

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