The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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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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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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There's a competition in Sweden called Kaninhoppning, or rabbit show jumping.
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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