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

(1) The cartilage of shark is in use for the cure of cancer. But the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved cartilage as a treatment of cancer.
(2) Long-time bird watcher and nature writer Candace Savage has observed that crows are so intelligent that they can play pranks on each other.
(3) Dolphins have developed a unique sleep pattern that allows them to sleep with one eye open and one hemisphere of their brain still active. The other half of the brain keeps a vigil of the surrounding environment and breathing functions.
(4) Do you know about sailfish ? Considered the fastest fish in the ocean, its speed is as much as that of a running cheetah, the fastest land animal. This speed is facilitated by its hydrodynamic shape, a giant dorsal fin and a long, pointy nose.

sailfish 
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(5) Male gentoo penguins look for the smoothest, shiniest pebble to present to females of their choice. If the female accepts, she takes the pebble and places it in her nest, accepting the male as her mate.
(6) Man-eating sharks prefer to eat men. 13 males are bitten for every one female
(7) Some Turtles can breath out of their butts.
 
gentoo penguin

Turtle 
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(8) China has the most goats in the world, they have over 170 Million.
(9) Fourteen new species of dancing frogs were discovered in 2014, raising the global number of known dancing-frog species to 24.
(10) Worldwide, more people eat and drink milk from goats than any other animal.

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goats 
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