Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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A tortoise named Adwaita lived to 255 years old. To put it into perspective, he was born before the United States of America existed and his death was announced on CNN (1750-2006).
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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