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The animal that kills the most humans is the mosquito, causing 720,000–1 million deaths yearly through disease. The second deadliest species to humans is humans themselves, at roughly 430,000–475,000 killed by other humans annually.
When syphilis spread across Europe, Naples called it "the French disease" and France called it "the Neapolitan disease." European countries then named syphilis after whichever nation they considered most immoral—the Spanish disease, the German disease, the Polish disease, and so on.
Newborn horses don't have hard hooves. A jelly-like covering called "foal slippers" wraps around their hooves, protecting the mother during pregnancy and birth. These coverings naturally fall off once the foal begins to stand and walk.
Walking with same-side arm and leg moving together (lateral walk) is actually the most common gait among mammals — dogs, cats, elephants, and deer all walk this way. In Edo-period Japan, people also walked this way, using a style called "nanba."