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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Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and sharks.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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All pandas are ‘owned’ by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years.
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Ants tend to survive in a microwave because they find the coolest spot and wait!
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