Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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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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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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