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All clownfish are born male.
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Denmark charges a tax of 150% on all new car purchases.
In the UK, The King legally owns all unmarked swans.
From 12 March 1944, Britain barred all travel to Ireland in order to prevent the leaking of the date of the D-Day landings.
An anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide.
To keep from drifting apart, sea otters hold hands while they sleep.
Inside the Berlin Wall ended up the ironically-named the Church of Reconciliation. GDR authorities ordered the church to be dynamited in 1985.
Goats have accents.
The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.
A herd of sixty cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a day.
Some captive female sharks have been known to reproduce without the aid of a male, essentially cloning themselves.
A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
Dolphins give names to each other.
A refereeing decision in a soccer match between Argentina and Peru in 1964 led to a riot in which 300 fans were killed.
Gorillas can catch human colds — you’re probably still safe to go to the zoo with the sniffles, though.
Forget bald eagles. The turkey was once almost named the national bird.
Tumucumaque National Park, situated in northwestern Brazil inside the Amazon Rainforest, is the world's largest tropical forest park. It's bigger than Belgium.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
In 1492, the Catholic monarchs of Spain issued a decree banning all Jews. Sultan Bayezid, a Muslim, then sent the Ottoman navy to rescue them.
There are 32 muscles in a cat’s ear.
At birth, baby kangaroos are only about an inch long – no bigger than a large water bug or a queen bee.
Japanese Death Row inmates are not told their date of execution. They wake up each day wondering if it might be their last.
500 when?
Snails can regenerate their eyes.
The smell of a skunk can be detected by a human a mile away.
Traces of nicotine and cocaine were found in Egyptian mummies.
There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill six cats!
Want to know if your pet turtle is a boy or girl? Listen closely! Female turtles hiss and male turtles grunt.