When a drone bee mates with a queen, its ejaculation is so powerful that it can even be heard by the human ear.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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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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Domestic pigs average a top speed of about 11 miles per hour.
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Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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