The Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days.
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Cats recognise the voice of their owner, but never evolved to care.
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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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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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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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