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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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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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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A cat can jump FIVE TIMES as high as it is tall!
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A domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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