Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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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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Mosquitoes don't just bite you, they also pee on you.
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It has been estimated that a bite from a grizzly bear can crush a bowling ball.
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