Animal Kingdom
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Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees Fahrenheit (28 degrees Celsius).
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Dragonflies have almost 360 degree vision.
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Elephants only sleep for two hours each day.
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A newborn koala is the size of a jellybean.
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Emus and kangaroos can't walk backwards.
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Chickens can see more colours than a human.
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Flamingos can sleep in ponds that freeze around their legs at night, drink boiling water and survive conditions that expose them to arsenic and other poisonous gases. 
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Otters have a pouch in their fur to store their favorite rock.
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Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!
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Chameleon skin is made up of tiny, mirror-like crystals that reflect differing levels of light, allowing it to change color.
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Mosquitoes bite people with Type O blood nearly twice as often as those with Type A.
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Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
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Swans only have one partner for their whole life, if their partner dies they could pass away from a broken heart.
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Penguins have knees.
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Octopuses have copper-based blood instead of iron-based blood, which is why their blood is blue rather than red.
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An oyster can change its gender
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Earthworms have five hearts.
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If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
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In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years there were no reported cases of an ostrich burying its head in the sand. 
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Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels. 
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The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It’s like a human jumping the length of a football field. 
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The Box Jellyfish has a 360 degree view of its environment with 24 eyes and uses four parallel brains to process the images. 
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Cats are thought to be primarily responsible for the extinction of 33 species of birds
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Snakes evolved from a four-legged reptilian ancestor—most likely a small, burrowing, land-bound lizard—about 100 million years ago. Some snakes, such as pythons and boas, still have traces of back legs.
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Male mice actually sing love songs for females -- The sounds they make are ultrasonic and humans are unable to hear them.
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When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.  
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36 million years ago, penguins were about 5 feet tall.
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Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.
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Baby elephants suck their trunks just like baby humans suck their thumbs.
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Blue whales are so big, that a human can swim through their largest veins and arteries.
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Kangaroos hop because they can’t move their legs independently.
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A newborn koala is the size of a jellybean.
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The decapitated head of a dead snake can still bite, even hours after death. These types of bites usually contain huge amounts of venom.
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Charles Darwin brought a 5-year-old Tortoise named *Harriet* back from the Galápagos Islands that later ended up being owned by Steve Irwin.

Harriet, the Tortoise, died in 2006 at the age of 176.
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You can prevent cats from scratching your furniture by spraying orange or lemon juice on the place where they normally scratch.
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Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.
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Dogs have been man's best friend for at least 14,000 years.
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Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees Fahrenheit (28 degrees Celsius).
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Do ants ever sleep?

Ants definitely rest - in any given colony there will always be some individuals that are standing still, not doing anything. Ants are also inactive in cold temperatures and many species hibernate through the winter.

Resting ants exhibit loss of muscle tone and reduced sensitivity to stimuli. But they don't have a complex enough nervous system to exhibit the different brain wave patterns seen in humans during sleep; nor do they dream.
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A group of Pandas 🐼 is called an *"Embarrassment."*
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Mosquitoes have killed more humans than all the wars in history.
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In 2015, scientists on a National Geographic expedition discovered sharks living inside Kavachi, one of the most active underwater volcanoes on Earth.

Divers couldn't investigate because of the heat and acidity, so they used robots.
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If your pet makes a specific noise around you for attention, That's them naming you.
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Sloths can swim three times faster than they can walk on land.

Because of their ability to slow their heart rates to one-third of their standard rate, they can also hold their breath for up to 40 minutes underwater.
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Earth is accelerating toward its sixth mass extinction event, according to scientists.

Animals and plants are dying at the quickest rate since the dinosaur extinction 66 million years ago.
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Penguins have knees.
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*The kangaroo mouse never needs to drink water.*

Despite being named after an Australian animal, the kangaroo mouse lives in the Nevada desert. And since it resides in such a dry area, it's learned to adapt by getting all of the hydration it needs via the seeds it eats. This means that the kangaroo mouse never drinks water. 
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Cats cannot taste sugar.

They don't have sweet taste buds, because one of the two genes necessary for sweetness receptors was permanently turned off millions of years ago.
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At over 2,000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
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A teaspoon of honey is actually the lifework of 12 bees.
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All the pandas in the world come from China.

When a baby panda is born, by agreement, it is sent back to China via FedEx.
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It would take one month for a sloth to travel a mile.
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Grasshoppers have ears in their bellies.
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Killer whales are actually dolphins.
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Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning. 
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Cats spend so much of their time sleeping that by the age of 9, they will have only been awake for about 3 years.
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Blue whale tongues can weigh as much as an elephant
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Lobsters taste with their feet
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Pandas can poop up to 40 times a day.
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Sloths can lose up to one-third of their body weight from one defecation.
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Lions have terrific night vision. They are 6 times more sensitive to light than humans. This gives them a distinct advantage over some prey species when hunting at night.
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The blue whale's heart is huuuuge! As in, the size of a car; its beat can be detected from two miles away.
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Common Cobra venom is not on the list of top 10 venoms yet it is still 40 times more toxic than cyanide.      
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The most common name given to a pet goldfish is 'Jaws.'
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A group of scientists recently found an organism related to coral and jellyfish, that doesn't need oxygen to live. It lives in salmon tissue, and could potentially be the last creature to survive on our planet.
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There are about 25 million tons of spiders living on earth.
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Ants don't have lungs.
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In 1987, a squirrel carrying a piece of tin foil shut down the NASDAQ stock exchange for 82 minutes, resulting in a loss of about 20 million potential trades.
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If an ant was the same size as us, it would be twice as fast as a Lamborghini.
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A "dead" Egyptian snail was put on display in the British Museum in March 1846.

Four years later, the snail woke up.
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While many people assume that Earth's oxygen comes from rainforests, 50 to 85 percent of the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is generated by little marine plants called phytoplankton.
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Dogs experience a chemical explosion in their brains when they see a human carrying a treat for them.
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The snow leopard protects itself from extreme cold when it sleeps by wrapping its 3-foot-long tail around its nose. 
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There is a snake, called the boomslang, whose venom causes you to bleed out from every orifice on your body. You may even turn blue from internal bleeding, and it can take up to 5 days to die from the bleeding.
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36 million years ago, penguins were about 6 feet tall & weighed over 250 pounds.
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Elephants are evolving to be tuskless due to decades of poaching.

Usually, less than four percent of female elephants are born without tusks. However, there are currently elephant populations in which 98% of females are born without tusks.
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The bumblebee was initially called the "humblebee."
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Bees stop buzzing during an eclipse.

Researchers recorded the buzzing of bees during the 2017 North American eclipse using tiny microphones and found the bees were active until moments before totality. Then they all went silent at the same time.
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Jellyfish are considered biologically immortal. They don't age and will never die unless they are killed.
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Elephants are one of the very few land mammals, aside from humans, to mourn the dead and visit their graves.

Most species, including the ones believed to mourn, lose interest in a body after it has decomposed.
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Dogs experience a chemical explosion in their brains when they see a human carrying a treat for them.
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The heart of a blue whale can weigh more than 1,300 lbs and can be heard beating from 2 miles away.
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Alligators rarely suffer from infections because they have robust immune systems.

Their blood is effective against 23 strains of bacteria, and can even destroy a significant amount of HIV.
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Worker bees have a very special way of communicating with each other. Foragers perform a 'wag dance' to inform other workers of the direction of the nectar source and its distance. 
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Scientists discovered that some migrating birds fly continuously for up to 200 days.

They eat and sleep while gliding through the sky.
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The largest lizard in the world is the Komodo Dragon which reaches up 3 meters, and sometimes even longer than a car.
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