Whales and dolphins can't taste anything other than salt.
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Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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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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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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Parrotfish make themselves a kind of mucus 'sleeping bag' which masks their smell from predators and keeps parasites away.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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