Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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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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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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