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Amazing facts

* When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of three metres, normally without being hurt.

*Cockroaches have a high tolerance to radiation and are the most likely creature to survive a nuclear war.

* Pigs and humans are the only creatures that get sunburnt.

*Fleas can jump 80 times their own height and 150 times their own length.

* Did you know that the shark is immune to all known diseases? Its skeleton is made of cartilage and has no bones.

* The average slug can stretch itself out to eleven times its body length.

*Snails can sleep for three years without eating.

*The elephant is the only animal with four knees.An albatross can fly all day and not flap its wings once.

* A duck's quack doesn't echo, and nobody knows why.

*Rabbits have been known to reach a speed of 44 mph.

* Cows and horses sleep standing up.

* All domestic cats hate lemons, or any citrus scent of any kind.

* Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blads. * Stroking a cat or dog can lower your blood pressure and heart rate and helps reduce the risk of illnesses like heart disease.

* The biggest frog in the world unusually dubbed Keith Baxter, lives under a slab in Yeovil, Somerset.

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