Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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A zoo in China gave a gay penguin couple the opportunity to raise a chick.
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Lobsters have blue blood.
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A newborn Chinese water deer is so small, it can (almost) be held in the palm of a hand.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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Travis was a chimpanzee who socialized with humans since birth. He could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch TV using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner's horses, water plants, and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
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