Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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A newborn Chinese water deer is so small, it can (almost) be held in the palm of a hand.
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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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Cats and dogs can hear ultrasound.
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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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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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