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TIL A Sloth's claws are finger bones

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W7DRd TIL that some snakes are both venomous and poisonous. They extract poison from their food and store it in special glands, separate from venom sacs. Mother can transfer poison to their offsprings by transferring it across egg membrane while eggs are gestating.
Ke1w TIL A cat named Cleo tracked down and found her owner who had been moved into a nursing home. Nancy Cowen forced to say goodbye to her loveable cat whom she had adopted as a stray eight years earlier but weeks later Cleo, to the amazement of everyone, managed to find her.
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