Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
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Dogs sometimes fake being sick to get attention.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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Sharks, like other fish, have their reproductive organs in their chests.
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A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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The Pistol Shrimp can snap its claws together to create a sound of 218 decibels, louder than as supersonic jet at full speed. It only lasts for 1 millisecond. The snapping action also creates a bubble that is greater than 5000 Kelvin, close to the surface temperature of the sun.
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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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