During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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The Pistol Shrimp can snap its claws together to create a sound of 218 decibels, louder than as supersonic jet at full speed. It only lasts for 1 millisecond. The snapping action also creates a bubble that is greater than 5000 Kelvin, close to the surface temperature of the sun.
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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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Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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Dolphins can rapidly heal from extreme injuries, such as shark bites, and regenerate their original body shape.
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The difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of living tissue and bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
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