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 Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 7:48 am
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Fact: Most cats have no eyelashes
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 8:20 am
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Fact: If you somehow found a way to extract all of the gold from the bubbling core of our lovely little planet, you would be able to cover all of the land in a layer of gold up to your knees.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 8:25 am
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Fact: Hippo calves weigh nearly 100 pounds ( 45 kilograms ) at birth and can suckle on land or underwater by closing their ears and nostrils.
[source; nationalgeographic]
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 9:28 am
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Fact: Polar bear fur is transparent, not white. source
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 9:31 am
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Fact: The idea of having foxes as pets originally came from Russia, where an experiment was done to see how genetics affected personality. The foxes were bred into two lines based on their personality, one of foxes who avoided contact and one so docile they would sit in lab workers laps while they worked. Some foxes eventually went home with the scientists.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 9:45 am
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Fact: Horses are undeniably clever animals. Beyond being proficient at relatively simple learning tasks, they are also recognized as having the capacity to solve advanced cognitive challenges involving categorization learning and a degree of concept formation.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 10:02 am
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Fact: A group of parrots is known as a pandemonium.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 11:08 am
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Fact: The "horn" found on a male narwhal is not actually a horn, but rather the largest of its two teeth, which protrudes through the lip. On rare occasion, both of the teeth grow long like this, resulting in a double horned narwhal!
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 11:13 am
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Fact: Male kangaroos flex their biceps to attract females.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 11:38 am
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Fact: Red pandas are the only non-primate species that can taste aspartame. They did a study where they presented various animals with plain water, sugar water and water with sweeteners, and found that red pandas preferred water flavoured with neotame, sucralose & aspartame :3
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 11:46 am
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Fact: Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 11:50 am
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Fact: Budgies can move and see out of each eye independently of the other one, which is known as having monocular vision.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:30 pm
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Fact: Ladybug larvae resemble tiny alligators, with elongated bodies and bumpy skin
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:43 pm
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Fact: The word "almost" is the largest word in the English language where each letter falls in alphabetical order after the other.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:47 pm
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Fact: Orange and black are associated with Halloween because orange represents the fall harvest and black represents darkness and death.
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