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What are your favorite fun facts about animals? (lemmy.ml)
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-Elephants can't jump.

-Starfish don't brains.

-Cheetahs are almost literally giant housecats: they purr, they meow, they don't attack humans and are surprisingly easy to tame.

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[โ€“] 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

Sharks are as old as fire.
They evolved around 450 million years ago, which is also the time oxygen levels in the atmosphere first got high enough to sustain fire, and land plants appeared that could catch fire.

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