The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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When a male gentoo penguin "falls in love" with a female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her.
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A koi fish, named "Hanako", was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.
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Sharks, like other fish, have their reproductive organs in their chests.
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