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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Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
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Lobsters have blue blood.
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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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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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By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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