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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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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Urechis unicinctus is a species of marine spoon worm that is widely referred to as the ‘penis fish’.
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