The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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In 1955, the citizens of São Paulo were so upset with their government that they elected a rhinoceros named Cacareco (meaning rubbish) to the city council in protest, with over 100,000 votes.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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Cats are one of the only animals to domesticate themselves and approach humans on their own terms.
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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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