Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
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There's a lizard known as the 'Jesus Lizard' that can run across water.
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Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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The Pistol Shrimp can snap its claws together to create a sound of 218 decibels, louder than as supersonic jet at full speed. It only lasts for 1 millisecond. The snapping action also creates a bubble that is greater than 5000 Kelvin, close to the surface temperature of the sun.
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Travis was a chimpanzee who socialized with humans since birth. He could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch TV using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner's horses, water plants, and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
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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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