Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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Cats recognise the voice of their owner, but never evolved to care.
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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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Alligators can live up to 100 years.
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