Random Animal Facts

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    Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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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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    Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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    Thumbelina
    Thumbelina
    Thumbelina, the smallest horse in the world, is about the size of a dog.
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    Flatworms Mating
    Flatworms Mating
    When flatworms mate, two "males" use their bifurcated penises to fence one another. The winner, or the flatworm who stabs the other with its penis, remains a male while the loser becomes female.
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    Blue whale arteries are large enough for humans to swim through and their hearts are the size of cars.
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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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