A domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.
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Whales and dolphins can't taste anything other than salt.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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On some poorly researched trivia lists it is stated as a fact that a pregnant goldfish is called a twit. This is not true as goldfish lay eggs.
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A dork is a whale's penis.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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