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#5 Koko The Gorilla
Koko and her trainer, Francine Patterson Weird Fact: Koko is a “talking” gorilla who understands more than 1,000 words in American Sign Language and 2,000 words in spoken English. Born in 1971 in San...
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#9 Caterpillar Chow
Caterpillars eat constantly - day and night Weird Fact: Caterpillars eat constantly. Caterpillars are the cute little larval forms of butterflies or moths. And, as the famous children’s book suggests,...
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#10 Mexican Walking Fish
Mexican Walking Fish have a way of being ridiculously cute Weird Fact: The Mexican Walking Fish is not only perpetually cute in its long-lasting larval form – it also has the ability to regenerate lost...
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#16 Dogs Can Smell Cancer
Weird Fact: Dogs can smell cancer in humans. New research out of Germany shows that dogs can smell lung cancer on your breath. The scientists trained two German Shepherds, a Labrador Retriever and an...
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#20 Cane Toads in Australia
Cane toads in Australia: an ecological nightmare Weird Fact: After 102 cane toads were introduced to Australia in 1935 to quell beetle populations, the venomous beasts multiplied to more than 200...
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#23 Fruit Fly Sperm
Fruit fly sperm is up to 5.8cm long Weird Fact: Fruit fly sperm can be an astonishing 5.8cm long. Drosophila bifurca has comically large sperm. An individual fruit fly sperm cell, while mostly tail,...
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#25 Hardcore Mice
Mice are hardcore Weird Fact: A mouse can squeeze through a hole the size of a ballpoint pen. Mice are surprisingly malleable. Thanks to their soft skulls and squidgy bodies, they can squeeze their...
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#27 Falling Ants
A falling ant never dies Weird Fact: You could drop an ant off the Empire State Building and it would survive. The thing about ants is they’re small and hardy. Their minuscule dimensions save them from...
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#29 Cleaning Hippo Teeth
Weird Fact: In the wild, hippos clean their teeth by allowing fish to swim in their mouths and nibble at their 3-foot long canines. The hippopotamus – rated as Africa’s most dangerous large mammal –...
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#39 Clown Fish
Weird Fact: Clownfish change from male to female Clownfish and a purple and white sea anemone The ocean floor is full of weird and wonderful creatures, perhaps none more famous than the clownfish....
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