Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect - typically up to 30 years. Western harvester ant queens can live up to 40 years!
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Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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A dairy cow can produce more milk when listening to music.
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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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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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