Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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A giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
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Parrotfish make themselves a kind of mucus 'sleeping bag' which masks their smell from predators and keeps parasites away.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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A koi fish, named "Hanako", was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.
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Dolphins have names for one another.
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An Indian man known as "Snake Manu" can put small snakes, including deadly cobras, into his mouth and pass them out through his nose.
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