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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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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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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The Lion's Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago).
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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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Sharks, like other fish, have their reproductive organs in their chests.
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