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| March 14 is "Save a spider day." |
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| Bees have been known to cure rheumatism. (Rheumatism or rheumatic disorder is a non-specific term for medical problems affecting the joints and connective tissue.The study of, and therapeutic interventions in, such disorders is called rheumatology.) |
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| An ant can survive for up to two weeks underwater. |
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| A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times, and a tiny gnat 1,000 times. |
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| Spiders have transparent blood. |
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| The Giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair. |
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| There are about 5,000 species of coral known. Only about half of them build reefs. |
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| The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time. |
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| Reindeer like to eat bananas. |
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| Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks. That means one shark will go through more than 24,000 new teeth in a year. |
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| The blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating. |
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| You can cut up a starfish into pieces and each piece will grow into a completely new starfish. |
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| Beavers do not eat fish. |
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| The only venomous British snake is the adder. |
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| The jackrabbit is not a rabbit; it is a hare. |
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| The leech has 32 brains, 32 more than most humans. |
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| Despite being a nine-inch-tall bird, the roadrunner can run as fast as a human sprinter. |
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| The flying gurnard, a fish, swims in water, walks on land, and flies through the air. |
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| Boredom can lead to madness in parrots. When caged by themselves and neglected for long periods of time, these intelligent, sociable birds can easily become mentally ill. Many inflict wounds upon themselves, develop strange tics, and rip out their own feathers. |
