Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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Female kangaroos have three vaginas.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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A newborn Chinese water deer is so small, it can (almost) be held in the palm of a hand.
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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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Penguins have a gland above their eye that turns saltwater into freshwater.
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