Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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A koi fish, named "Hanako", was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.
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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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The colossal squid has the largest eyes in the world.
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The two oldest cats on record lived to 38 and 34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli and coffee.
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The reindeer is the only mammal that can see UV light.
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