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.
25
It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
217
The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi.
328
Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
66
Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
8
Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies.
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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
12