By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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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.
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Domestic pigs average a top speed of about 11 miles per hour.
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The two oldest cats on record lived to 38 and 34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli and coffee.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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Ants tend to survive in a microwave because they find the coolest spot and wait!
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Sharks, like other fish, have their reproductive organs in their chests.
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