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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It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure!
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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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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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Domestic pigs average a top speed of about 11 miles per hour.
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