It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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The largest earthworm on record was found in South Africa and measured 22 feet.
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By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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The male seahorse carries babies and 'gives birth' to them instead of the female.
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Dogs sometimes fake being sick to get attention.
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Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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