Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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Domestic pigs average a top speed of about 11 miles per hour.
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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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The Lion's Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago).
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