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Deer have no gall bladders.
There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.
Snakes are carnivores, which means they only eat animals, often small ones such as insects, birds, frogs and other small mammals.
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Meteorito is a Cabernet Sauvignon wine that was aged in a barrel with a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite for a year.
In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they’re moose hunting.
For every dollar invested in sanitation and water, there is a $4.30 return in the form of reduced health care costs around the world.
The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
Alexandre Dumas, author of The Count of Monte Cristo, fought a duel when he was 23 years old, but his pants fell down in the midst of it.
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that out of the 1,200 species of bats, only 2 can walk on ground. These are the Vampire bat and the Burrowing bat.
Some male songbirds sing more than 2,000 times each day.
In Alaska, more than 80% of adults are registered as organ donors, while in New York only 12% of adults are.
The only mammals to undergo menopause are elephants, humpback whales and human females.
The Battle of Waterloo didn't take place in the village of Waterloo but in the nearby villages of Braine l'Alleud and Plancenoit.
The FBI was created under the tenure of attorney general Charles Joseph Bonaparte, the great-nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte.
The city of Surprise, Arizona was named by its founder who stated she "would be surprised if the town ever amounted to much."
Blue-eyed lemurs are one of two (non-human) primates to have truly blue eyes.
The Aztecs had penalties for being drunk which ranged from head-shaving to the death penalty.
A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
For every human in the world there are one million ants.
If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop – they use their tails for balance.
In Florida, executions are carried out by a private citizen who is paid $150 per execution.
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will become pale!
Marie Curie is the only person to ever win Nobel prizes in two different areas of science.
The 1962 escape from Alcatraz, the only successful one, is still under investigation by the U.S. Marshals Service.
The lifespan of a rock star is 25 years shorter than average.
Houdini starred in five Hollywood movies and owned his own movie studio.
Eating excess calories stops the body's production of uroguanylin, a chemical that helps people feel full, so overeating begets overeating.
The Kepler 11145123 star, discovered in 2016, is so perfectly spherical that it's the roundest natural object ever measured.
Kevin Costner refused to star in the movie Platoon (1986) because he believed it was insulting to American soldiers, since his own brother was a Vietnam veteran.