Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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Giant Anteaters' front legs look like a panda.
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Parrot parents "name" their children with a signature call.
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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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Blue whale arteries are large enough for humans to swim through and their hearts are the size of cars.
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The two oldest cats on record lived to 38 and 34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli and coffee.
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Whales and dolphins can't taste anything other than salt.
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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.
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