Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
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Blue whale arteries are large enough for humans to swim through and their hearts are the size of cars.
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Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets, take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.
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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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Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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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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