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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Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Sharks, like other fish, have their reproductive organs in their chests.
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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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The male seahorse carries babies and 'gives birth' to them instead of the female.
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