Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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The octopus does not have a blind spot.
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Alligators can live up to 100 years.
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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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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and sharks.
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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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