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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Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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There's a competition in Sweden called Kaninhoppning, or rabbit show jumping.
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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
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Meysi is one of the world's smallest dogs, measuring in at just 7cm tall, 12cm long, and weighing a meagre 250 grams (only slightly heavier than a hamster!)
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