The Pistol Shrimp can snap its claws together to create a sound of 218 decibels, louder than as supersonic jet at full speed. It only lasts for 1 millisecond. The snapping action also creates a bubble that is greater than 5000 Kelvin, close to the surface temperature of the sun.
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Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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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 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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