Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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There's a young hippo and a 130+ year old tortoise in a Kenyan wildlife preserve who are best friends and they even sleep and play together.
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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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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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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
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