In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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The two oldest cats on record lived to 38 and 34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli and coffee.
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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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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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