Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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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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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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The sound of a tiger's roar can travel a distance of up to 2 miles (~3 km).
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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