Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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A domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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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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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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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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