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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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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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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The male seahorse carries babies and 'gives birth' to them instead of the female.
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Sandy, an African Penguin, has been in 'love' with her keeper at the Nuremburg zoo since 1996.
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