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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Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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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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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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Cat families usually play best in even numbers. Cats and kittens should be acquired in pairs whenever possible!
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A dork is a whale's penis.
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