FACT 1
Until the 1960s to find out if a woman was pregnant doctors injected her urine into frogs, if the frogs laid eggs within a day it would be considered positive due to hormones from the woman.
FACT 2
Octopus have nine brains, three hearts, and blue blood. Two hearts for the gills, one for everything else, and one central brain with a smaller one at the base of each arm.
FACT 3
African Elephants are pregnant for 22 months. It's the longest gestation period of any mammal.
FACT 4
With the ability to pull 100,000 times their own body weight, the strongest creatures on Earth are actually a type of bacteria. Uh, Gonorrhea, to be exact.
FACT 5
There is a species of beetle called the Bombardier Beetle that shoots a boiling hot chemical mixture at it's enemies by mixing hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide together, which are stored separately in the beetle's abdomen until needed in which case it senses a threat of some sort and results to these chemicals as a sort of defense.
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