The 20 Greatest Animal Facts That Will Blow Your Mind.

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The 20 Greatest Animal Facts That Will Blow Your Mind.
Here’s our big list of the 20 greatest animal facts. This includes some of the most asked, fun, surprising, and crazy animal facts from across the animal kingdom. The loudest, deadliest, fastest, largest, most bizarre, and random, are all here in our big animal fact list.
Fact Sources & References:
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R. Nuwer (2013), “Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High”, via Smithsonian.
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