Weird Facts
Shave a Tiger and It Would Still Have Stripes Underneath
A tiger's iconic stripes aren't just on its fur ? the pattern is pigmented right into the skin itself, meaning a completely shaved tiger would still be unmistakably striped.
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Weird Facts
Elephants Hear Through Their Feet and Can Listen Across Miles
Elephants don't just hear with their ears ? they pick up deep rumbling vibrations through the pads of their feet, turning the ground beneath them into a miles-wide telephone network.
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The Animal That Poops Perfect Cubes
Wombats are the only creatures on Earth known to produce cube-shaped droppings ? and scientists spent years figuring out exactly how their guts pull off this geometric feat.
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The Bird That Can Mimic a Chainsaw (And Does So Voluntarily)
Australia's lyrebird can replicate almost any sound it hears ? from other birds to camera shutters to actual chainsaws ? and it does it all in the hope of impressing a date.
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Hagfish Can Fill a Bucket With Slime in Under a Second
The hagfish has evolved the most disgusting superpower in the ocean ? when threatened, it releases a fibrous gel that can choke a shark in seconds.
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Starfish Have No Blood ? They Run on Seawater
Forget plasma and red blood cells ? the starfish ditched blood entirely millions of years ago and decided seawater was perfectly fine, thank you very much.
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Ants Have Been Farming for 60 Million Years
Long before humans picked up a plow, leafcutter ants were already cultivating underground fungal gardens ? making them the world's original farmers by roughly 59,988,000 years.
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Scientists Found a Clam That Was Alive During the Renaissance
Researchers pulled a 507-year-old ocean clam from the North Atlantic near Iceland ? then accidentally killed it trying to figure out how old it was.
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Some Turtles Survive Winter by Breathing Through Their Butts
Painted turtles spend months frozen under ice without using their lungs at all ? they absorb just enough oxygen through a region near their tail to stay alive until spring.
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Rats Laugh When You Tickle Them, But You Cant Hear It
Scientists discovered that rats emit high-pitched giggles when tickled ? sounds too squeaky for human ears to catch, but very real and surprisingly contagious among the rats themselves.