A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
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Giant Anteaters' front legs look like a panda.
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Freddie Mercury held parties with midgets carrying around trays of cocaine.
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Parrotfish make themselves a kind of mucus 'sleeping bag' which masks their smell from predators and keeps parasites away.
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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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The Pistol Shrimp can snap its claws together to create a sound of 218 decibels, louder than as supersonic jet at full speed. It only lasts for 1 millisecond. The snapping action also creates a bubble that is greater than 5000 Kelvin, close to the surface temperature of the sun.
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Cats are one of the only animals to domesticate themselves and approach humans on their own terms.
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