Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies.
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Jaguars frequently get high by eating hallucinogenic roots, which also increases their senses for hunting.
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Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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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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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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A tortoise named Adwaita lived to 255 years old. To put it into perspective, he was born before the United States of America existed and his death was announced on CNN (1750-2006).
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