There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
9
A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
23
Tigers, leopards, and jaguars love "Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men". The scent is used to attract animals to cameras in the wilderness, and was even a turn on for one pair of Jaguars who were subject to it.
17
When dragonflies mate, their tails form a love heart.
22
Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
19
Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
12
Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
218