A study has shown that a male zebra finch is less likely to court a female zebra finch if he did not form any social friendships with female zebra finches when younger.

The microwave oven was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

An elephant can live up to the age of seventy, or in some cases even more.

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