The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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When Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
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A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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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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