An elephant's tooth can weigh as much as 12 pounds.
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15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.
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An adult giraffe's tongue is 17 inches long.
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Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
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A Giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.
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The pea aphid insect explodes itself thereby sacrificing its life to protect its relatives from predators.
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