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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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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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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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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Alligators can live up to 100 years.
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