Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.
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When a male honey bee climaxes during sex, his testicles explode and then he dies.
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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 Pistol Shrimp can snap its claws together to create a sound of 218 decibels, louder than as supersonic jet at full speed. It only lasts for 1 millisecond. The snapping action also creates a bubble that is greater than 5000 Kelvin, close to the surface temperature of the sun.
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Parrotfish make themselves a kind of mucus 'sleeping bag' which masks their smell from predators and keeps parasites away.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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