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Birds do not urinate.
Horses and cows sleep standing up.
The bat is the only mammal capable of flying. The bones on his legs are so thin that he cannot walk.
Even when a snake's eyes are closed, it can still see through its eyelids.
Despite their fluffy white fur, polar bears actually have black skin.
The average domestic fly lives only 2 to 3 weeks.
For every human, there are about a million ants.
A small amount of alcohol on a scorpion will drive him mad and sting it to death.
Alligators and sharks can live up to 100 years.
One bee has two stomachs: one for honey and one for food.
Elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a car.
Blue whales are the greatest creatures ever to have traveled the Earth.
A cockroach can survive about a week without its head before it starves.
When a dolphin is sick or injured, its distress cries prompt other dolphins to help it, helping it to rise to the surface to breathe.
A snail can sleep for up to 3 years.
The fastest bird, the thorny-tailed swift, can fly at speeds of up to 106 mph. (The peregrine falcon is even faster at 390 km/h or 108 mph.)
A cow produces nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in its lifetime.
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