Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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When a male gentoo penguin "falls in love" with a female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her.
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Alligators can live up to 100 years.
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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The colossal squid has the largest eyes in the world.
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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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