The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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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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In 2005, in Africa, it was reported that three lions rescued a 12-year-old girl from kidnappers and guarded her for half a day until help came.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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The octopus does not have a blind spot.
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Sharks have been on the planet longer than trees.
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