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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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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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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Sandy, an African Penguin, has been in 'love' with her keeper at the Nuremburg zoo since 1996.
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The reindeer is the only mammal that can see UV light.
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There's a lizard known as the 'Jesus Lizard' that can run across water.
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It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure!
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