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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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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There's a rare breed of pig that looks like a sheep.
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The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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