Ants tend to survive in a microwave because they find the coolest spot and wait!
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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A koi fish, named "Hanako", was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.
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