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    Octopuses enter a dementia-like state after breeding, forget what happened
    After octopuses breed, they develop dementia. They then live the rest of their lives in this confused, seemingly lost state, with apparently no knowledge of previous events.
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    There's a competition in Sweden called Kaninhoppning, or rabbit show jumping.
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    Lobsters have blue blood.
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    Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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    Mouth-Peeing Turtles
    Mouth-Peeing Turtles
    There's a species of soft-shelled turtle in China that 'pees' in puddles through its mouth.
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    When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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    A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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    When dragonflies mate, their tails form a love heart.
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