Alligators can live up to 100 years.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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Cats recognise the voice of their owner, but never evolved to care.
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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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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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