The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi.
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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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Lobsters have blue blood.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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