The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days.
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By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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