Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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The Pistol Shrimp can snap its claws together to create a sound of 218 decibels, louder than as supersonic jet at full speed. It only lasts for 1 millisecond. The snapping action also creates a bubble that is greater than 5000 Kelvin, close to the surface temperature of the sun.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets, take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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The colossal squid has the largest eyes in the world.
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