The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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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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Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and sharks.
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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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Lobsters have blue blood.
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A group of kittens is called a "kindle".
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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When Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
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