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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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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Sharks, like other fish, have their reproductive organs in their chests.
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Urechis unicinctus is a species of marine spoon worm that is widely referred to as the ‘penis fish’.
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