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What I Learnt Today : 10 Unknown Amazing Facts About Animals - Part L

(1) Fleas can jump up to 200 times their height. This is equivalent to a man jumping the Empire State Building in New York.
(2) Giraffes have sturdy hearts and high blood pressure, which help prevent fainting when they lift their heads from the ground to the sky.
(3) I seems that elephants have skin without fur. But, the reality is -“Elephants are covered with tiny hair”.
(4) Only half of a dolphin’s brain sleeps at a time. The other awake half makes the dolphin come up for air when needed to prevent drowning.

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(5) Octopuses and hagfish have more than one heart!
(6) Birds can recognise landmarks, which they use to help them navigate.
(7) Tardigrades are extremely durable microscopic animals that exist all over Earth. They can survive any of the following: 300 degrees Fahrenheit (149 Celsius), -458 degrees F (-272 C), the vacuum of space, pressure six times stronger than the ocean floor and more than a decade without food.

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(8) A single strand of spider silk is thinner than a human hair, but also five times stronger than steel of the same width. A rope just 2 inches thick could reportedly stop a Boeing 747.
(9) Dumbledore isn’t only the Headmaster of Hogwarts; in fact a dumbledore is an old English term for a type of bee.
(10) Katydids have ears in their front legs.

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Katydid 
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