A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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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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When you shave a guinea pig it looks like a little hippo.
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The Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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A tortoise named Adwaita lived to 255 years old. To put it into perspective, he was born before the United States of America existed and his death was announced on CNN (1750-2006).
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One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
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