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• Giraffes get kidney stones.
• A giraffe in a fight never bites.
• If a giraffe didn't have a six-foot neck, it probably wouldn't need a 25-pound heart. Takes a big heart to pump blood so high to the head.
• A giraffe's spots fade with age.
• In southern Algiers is one special truck route around low overpasses, established years ago solely to transport giraffes. You can't make giraffes duck. They won't do it.
• A baby giraffe grows an inch a day. And some baby giraffes have been seen to grow as much as half an inch an hour!
• Giraffes never stop wagging their tails.
• A giraffe's digestive system is about 280 feet long.
• Giraffes can't tell green from orange.
• A giraffe can close its nose.
• Julius Caesar was the first person to take a giraffe to Rome.