Random Animal Facts

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    Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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    Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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    Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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    The difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of living tissue and bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
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    Octopuses enter a dementia-like state after breeding, forget what happened
    After octopuses breed, they develop dementia. They then live the rest of their lives in this confused, seemingly lost state, with apparently no knowledge of previous events.
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    It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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    Cats and dogs can hear ultrasound.
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    Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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