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A starfish can turn its stomach inside out and extrude it partly from the body to eat the soft contents of shelled animals such as clams.
A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals causing relaxation. Women seem to like it light and frequent, men like it more strenuous.
They have square watermelons in Japan.
Camels and llamas can regurgitate their stomach contents and spit this material at approaching enemies.
Soldiers from every country salute with their right hand. The right hand was the sword hand; raising it was a sign of trust.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
A kangaroo rat can last longer without water than a camel can. A feature of the kangaroo rat is the animal's efficient kidneys. Because of this tremendous concentration ability, kangaroo rats never have to drink.
65% of Elvis impersonators are of Asian descent.
Female ferrets white blood cells are not produced in adequate numbers, and the ferret becomes much more susceptible to an infection. When they go into heat, she must mate or die. Ferrets are induced ovulators, and will stay in heat until they mate. Female ferrets in heat secrete high levels of estrogen. If this hormone stays in the blood for a prolonged period of time, as what occurs when the female does not mate, it will affect the bone marrow, causing a severe, and even life threatening aplastic anemia which is fatal.
A snail can also sleep for three years. They will withdraw into their shells, and hibernate or sleep, for as much as 2-3 years, until conditions improve.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma. Coconut water has the same electrolyte balance as blood (it’s "isotonic"), it has been called "the fluid of life."
A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down. The odd-looking flamingo, which appears to be all legs and all neck, has a boat-shaped beak which gives it the most unusual habit of eating with its head upside down.

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