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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know All the deep sea anglerfish you see pictures of with the lil lights hanging over their heads? They're all female.

The males are tiny and born with a terribly weak jaw and a massive hunger. They seek out a female, and torn between hungry and horny they bite her.

She then releases an enzyme that fuses the male to her body. She slowly absorbs them into her body with only their lil testicles remaining so she can instantly fertilize her eggs when she wants to.

Some females have rows and rows of lil testicles on their bodies from where they have absorbed multiple males.

And you thought your sex life was weird, eh?

But no kink shaming.

Hyzenthlay87 , Przemek P Report

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Aran Lindvail 2 years ago

🌟Lil testicles 🌟

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Sloths are literally too lazy to go looking for a mate, so a female sloth will often sit in a tree and scream until a male hears her and decides to mate with her

amishsheepherder , Javier Mazzeo Report

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Trisha Howson 2 years ago

Lol can relate lol 😂😂😂😂

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Steven Wooding, from the Institute of Physics in the UK, recently shared with Bored Panda a cool animal fact that he thinks others should know, too.

“Crows are the Einsteins of the bird world. Expert at solving puzzles, and they can even recognize your face. They will actively avoid individuals who have been aggressive toward them in the past," he told us that we should never underestimate crows. Ca-caw indeed.

35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Female dragonflies will fake being dead in order to stop unwanted male advances.

-eDgAR- , Les Attridge Report

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

In some species of animal, being dead does not stop unwanted male advances. I am looking at you ducks!

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know The chemical compound which is used to make fake banana flavour is the same compound honey bees use as an alarm pheromone. So never eat banana sweets near a beehive, and if you suddenly smell banana near a beehive, run!

generic-volume , Boba Jaglicic Report

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Jennik 2 years ago

Possibly the most useful thing I learned today

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know FACT: Dolphins have "bromances" in
which two males pair up for as long as 15 years and help each other hook up with females.

notcommonmedia Report

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Meanwhile, Dr. John W. Wilkinson, from the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation charity in the UK, told Bored Panda that learning about animals can help inspire us to protect them. He said that people sharing photos of animals can create a deeper interest in them and their conservation. So long as the wildlife doesn’t get disturbed too much.

If you happen to have a garden, one way that you can help your local amphibians and reptiles (we hear they’re very polite) is by building a garden pond for them. That and not using chemicals are two ways that you can really help out the life growing in your garden.

35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Tarantulas have pet frogs. The frogs eat bugs and parasites that would damage the spider’s eggs, and in turn the spider protects the frog. Even after the eggs hatch they continue to protect the frog.

Hazmatix_art , Carlos Henrique Report

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Trigga 2 years ago

Pet? They are helping each other out

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gengarde , Stephen Michael Barnett Report

35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know The binturong, also known as the bearcat, is an arboreal mammal closely related to the red panda. It smells like popcorn!

My obscure fact about it is that captive binturong are capable of holding grudges, and will climb above people they dislike in order to s**t on their heads.

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Trigga 2 years ago

Who's smelling animals?

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know In Africa certain tribes communicate directly with birds called Honeyguides letting them know they are ready to hunt. The honey guides then lead them to hidden beehives in trees. The tribesmen break open the hives and take the honey( an important resource in their diet) and leave the honeyguides the bee larva and wax to feast on. In fact, it’s the only known example of targeted two-way signals between people and a free-living species.

spoon_shaped_spoon , Derek Keats Report

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Ian Webling 2 years ago

Honey birds do this with honey badgers as well.

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Unlucky-Pomegranate3 , Suzanne D. Williams Report

"In a small garden, even an upturned dustbin lid or bowl will provide a place for animals to drink," Dr. Wilkinson explained to us that if space is an issue, even something as small as this can help. If you have more space, you can make a compost heap or build a log pile.

"Climate change can be a very negative factor for frogs, toads, and newts. Ponds can dry up too quickly, meaning their tadpoles don’t have enough time to develop. Also, warmer winters affect hibernating frogs. They use more energy during hibernation and partially wake up, meaning they are in poorer condition for breeding. This is particularly hard on the females who put a lot of energy into making eggs (spawn)," the wildlife expert stressed that climate change is having a massive impact on local critters.

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know When caterpillars enter the chrysalis phase, they don’t just sprout wings, their entire body first turns into a liquid, soupy substance which then reforms into the butterfly.

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Jayne Kyra 2 years ago

A comment from Reddit: The real crazy fact is that despite liquifying and then reforming as a butterfly they retain memories from when they were a caterpillar.

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Sue From Michigan 2 years ago

I'd love to know how scientists figured out that butterflies retain memories of being caterpillars.

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Trillian 2 years ago

How do we even know that?

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ᴇᴅᴇɴ 2 years ago

That's so cool

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Stephen Smith 2 years ago

So how many Butterfly's were asked to find out that fact?

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Purple Gurl 1 year ago

Owwww

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Viv Hart 2 years ago

How do the scientists know what memories are retained?

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January Tempis 2 years ago

That is so f*****g cool

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pat hayes 2 years ago

really? sez who? i mean, HOW do bug people know?

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Funhog 2 years ago

And if you see a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, don’t “help” it get free because the wings will become deformed if you do so. It needs the struggle in order to become stronger.

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Kona Pake 2 years ago

How many future butterflies did they kill to learn this?

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Troux 2 years ago

How many other species did they test for reassembly after liquefying?

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Erla Zwingle 2 years ago

What on God's green earth would a caterpillar memory be?

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QuirkyKittyGirl 1 year ago

“Mmmmm. Leaf crunchy. YIPES! Bird stabby!”

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Ara 2 years ago

Incredible

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QuirkyKittyGirl 1 year ago

That liquid sloshing you hear? That’s just my brain trying to leak out my ears.

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SydneyP 2 years ago

You will not ruin butterflies for me with this soupy talk!!!!

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Monarch cat lady 1 year ago

Poor butterflies

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Currentlylost 1 year ago

Yeah, their stomach digests them, their dna shifts, and the soupy mess morphs into a butterfly. I can never look at a butterfly the way I did when I was little

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ARTHUR HENSLEY 1 year ago

🤩

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Suzie 1 year ago

Hence the horrific bright red liquid that Ur not warned about spurting everywhere when you buy one of those butterfly "education" kits to watch them evolve .. it's great esp if you are wearing any of your "best" cloths

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Kelley Baltierra 1 year ago

Wow

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Klopec 1 year ago

Very cool to see.

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Sinnsyk Jakte 1 year ago

Mushroom bodies.

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Phuong T 2 years ago

why is it creepy for me

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Mary Leverett 2 years ago

"Hope for the Flowers". 😉

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Claire Law 2 years ago

Every day's a school day

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Lsai Aeon 2 years ago

I feel like I'm in the chrysalis phase, myself. Though not sure it hurts this much for the soon to be butterfly

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Asher Tye 2 years ago

So they go from solid, to liquid, to solid again.

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Mindghost 2 years ago

So they would turn into cats if they were bigger?

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Hannah Edwards 2 years ago

Imagine if people did this. You go to bed one night, turn into a soup and hopefully wake up, three weeks later, more attractive.

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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 2 years ago

They do. Kinda. Teenagers are pretty much the liquid state of humans. It's mostly the brains that liquefy, though, sadly...

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Tami 2 years ago

Whoa!

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Roosters deafen themselves temporarily every time they crow, so that they don’t damage their own hearing.

Soulfighter56 , Sarah Halliday Report

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Lyop 2 years ago

Oooh! So its ok for the twat to give me mini heart attacks every morning from my bedroom window while he casually uses his internal earplugs?!!

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know We all know an octopus has 8 legs.

It also has 3 hearts and 9 brains, and it can fit itself through a hole the size of a quarter.

Waldo_007 , Diane Picchiottino Report

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k1ddkanuck 2 years ago (edited)

Each tentacle contains grey (brain) matter. Each one literally thinks for itself, while the central brain does the legwork where it comes to coordination. They are basically aliens. And very smart ones. Be nice to octopuses.

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know A sperm whale call is so loud the sound waves could kill a human if they swam close to the whale.

Apparently some divers said they could feel the water heat up from the energy of the sound.

MountEverest14 , wikipedia.org Report

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Scagsy 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure that when provoked, my wife could kill a human with her voice.

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Woodpecker tongues wrap around the back of their brains. This helps the brain stay protected during high speed pecking.

powderabuser , Robert Woeger Report

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Ben 2 years ago

Worth googling a picture, it looks quite awesome

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Hippos sweat is red.

Ethan8246 , Dušan veverkolog Report

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SelkieBlackfysh 2 years ago

Natural sunblock!

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know The spines on a Tiger's tongue are sharp enough to lick skin clean off of muscle.

me0619 , Alexas Fotos Report

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Trisha Howson 2 years ago

Yeah just imagine a cats tongue but 10 times as tough

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know All halibut are male until they reach 45 inches in length. They then all become female.

serouslydoe , Brian Yurasits Report

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third molar 2 years ago

So they get promoted!

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know There is a genus of frog called "Mini". There are only three frogs in the genus, and their scientific names are all puns: Mini mum, Mini ature and Mini scule.

SwimmingOnMars , Sergiu Nista Report

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No you didn't 2 years ago

Mini ngful.

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WalterDaSquirrel1259 , William Moreland Report

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Chickens will come say goodbye to each other when one is dying and they do soft clicks and will then leave and that chicken will normally die alone. Some chickens also will kill another chicken because they sense something’s wrong with the chicken, a disease for example. Hope u enjoyed these facts I found them in a book called How To Speak Chicken.

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Aran Lindvail 2 years ago

They will also absolutely eat dead chickens. They are tiny dinosaurs, after all.

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covalentbond007 , Włodzimierz Jaworski Report

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Idk how obscure it is but the average lifespan for a squirrel is 16 years which is a lot longer than I would have ever thought

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Scagsy 2 years ago (edited)

Imma come back as a squirrel. EDIT: Not because of this fact but because I like squirrels.

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Every once in awhile, an emperor penguin will do something very strange. Most of them will never do this, but the ones who do have stumped scientists for awhile now.

Every once in awhile, a penguin will turn away from its colony and start heading for the interior of the continent (Antarctica). Away from the food, the water, the safety of the colony. Off alone towards certain death. Almost like zombies. In the past, scientists would try to stop them. Or take them back to the colony. At which point, they'd simply turn around and begin their journey again, in the same direction, toward the same end. Some would even get violent if they were met with intervention.

The prevailing thought is that this penguin is depressed and is committing suicide in a very non-altruistic manner. But nobody knows for sure. There are a lot of possible explanations for this (including the possibility of a fungal infection similar to the cordyceps infection that can cause some colony insects to behave in exactly the same way, potential signs of brain tumors or other medical conditions that the birds are exposed to) It's well known that birds can experience depression or anxiety, but they tend to respond to this in very immediate ways, such as by over-preening (pulling out their own feathers), screaming, or being unusually quiet, loss of appetite, etc. (Bird anorexia is a MAJOR thing) These activities are signs of redirecting stress, while wandering off into the abyss of an unforgiving frozen continent implies the ability to analyze and think ahead in a way that most birds really don't seem to be able to do. So the reason may not be as immediately obvious as you might think.

From what I know, no autopsies have been performed on these rogue penguins. Most likely because the conditions are too harsh to hunt their corpses down. But until one is performed, we really have zero idea why they do this. And yet they do. And the behaviour is common enough that it's been documented multiple times.

StGir1 , Hubert Neufeld Report

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Mozzarella 2 years ago

Ok I am now very creeped out and slightly depressed myself. Penguins being depressed makes me depressed.

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Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Platypus' glow teal under a UV light, so Perry the Platypus is actually the correct color.

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Peppy Piplup 2 years ago

Dooby dooby dooba, dooby dooby dooba, dooby dooby dooba, PERRY!

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Snakes don't have eyelids. If you see a snake blink, that's a legless lizard.

CirothUngol , David Clode Report

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

When newts get pissed they are legless amphibians.

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Vultures urinate on their legs and feet to cool off on hot days, a process called urohydrosis. Their urine also helps kill any bacteria or parasites they’ve picked up from walking through carcasses or perching on dead animals.

Iron_Chic , Roberto Navarro Report

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

Doesn't everyone?

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Sharks are older than Dinosaurs, Trees, and *the Rings of Saturn*.

Sharks are old as f**k.

voidsong , Gerald Schömbs Report

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

Ancient shark, do do, do do do do.

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know To cross a river Armadillos can either sink to the bottom and crawl across since they can hold their breath for 7 minutes or they can inflate their intestines and use them as a flotation device to float.

Madbadbat , Joe Lemm Report

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Seonag Udell 2 years ago

Choices

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Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Mine are all whale related:

* Whale milk is so fatty that it has the consistency of toothpaste...
* ...this enables blue whale calves to grow at a rate of approximately 10lbs per hour
* Whales are the loudest animals on the planet - humpback whale songs can be heard 10,000 miles away
* Whales are the longest lived mammals on the planet - in 2007, a deadbowhead whale was found in Alaska with a 19th century harpoon embeddedin its flesh, making the animal at least 130 years old at the time ofits death
* The blue whale is the largest animal to have ever lived on earth - far larger than any prehistoric animal discovered to date

kirkl3s , Gerald Schömbs Report

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I’m A Black Cat 2 years ago

So could humans please stop hunting them??

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know The vast majority of Greenland sharks are blind thanks to a special parasite that eats their eyes and replaces them.

It is thought that this might actually be helpful because a) their eyesight was s**t anyway, b) the parasites wave like lures and may have an anglerfish-like effect, and c) the sharks are super slow so that might be one of the few ways for them to catch live prey.

Imagine something eating your eyeballs and it being an *upgrade*.

Fabled_Webs , wikipedia.org Report

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

They also use guide seals to navigate around the ocean.

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50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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French Diver’s “Jewels” In Tight Swimming Trunks Become Talk Of The Town At Olympics

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Penguins have a gland above their eye that converts saltwater into freshwater

Yeeteth_thy_baby , Cornelius Ventures Report

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Cat Momma 2 years ago

we need that to end freshwater crisis

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know A kangaroo will mate again one to three days after giving birth. the newborn will latch onto a teat in the pouch and as long as it thrives, the kangaroo can put its newly fertilized embryo in a state of dormancy and have a back up baby ready to go. if the newborn grows out of the pouch or dies, the kangaroos hormones will send signals to start the development of the egg. so they can have an adolescent Joey, a nursing one, and one in stasis all at the same time.

themoonhasgone , Ethan Brooke Report

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Trisha Howson 2 years ago

Wow new meaning to one after the other

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know There are more people who die each year because a coconut fell on their head than people who die in shark attacks.

I love this fact.

Blue0309 , Nipanan Lifestyle Report

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

Steven Spielberg to make a horror film called Coconuts.

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Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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Mom Leaves $250k Inheritance To Son, Throws A Fit When Daughter Stops Looking After Her

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know A beaver's a*s smells like icecream.

Castoreum, the product of those anal glands, was once used as a flavor substitute for vanilla. It’s now only used in perfume and a style of Swedish schnapps called Bäverhojt, or “beaver shout.”

TheDefected , Niklas Hamann Report

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Trigga 2 years ago

So someone just woke up one day and decides to smell a beavers a*s

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Turtles can breathe through their butts

ghost_gurrl , David Cadenas Report

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Mama Panda 2 years ago

That must suck if they have gas

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Pacu fish have teeth that look exactly like people’s. They evolved to chew nuts that fell into the water.

SunnySaigon , Omnitarian Report

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K- THULU 2 years ago

Remember that, guys ....

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35 Interesting And Weird Animal Facts Not Too Many People Know Rabbits don't have pads on their paws. Only fur.

So if you see a cartoon rabbit with pads on it's paw, completely wrong.

FOTBWN , Gavin Allanwood Report

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Bobbie Meyers 2 years ago

And don't keep them in wire bottom cages!

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