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The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons
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The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent than that of a rattlesnake
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The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin
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The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat
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The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span
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The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death
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The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito
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"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order
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The country with the most Post offices is India with over 152,792 compared with just over 38,000 in the United States
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