Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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There’s a bonobo named Kanzi who has learned to build a campfire and cook his own food.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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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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Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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When Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
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