The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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Emus cannot walk backwards.

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It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.

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Ninety-nine percent of all lobsters die a few weeks after hatching. In fact, the odds are 10,000 to 1 against any larval lobster living long enough to end up as a lobster dinner.

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A dolphin's hearing is so acute that it can pick up an underwater sound from fifteen miles away.

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Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.

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Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.

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The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

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Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.

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An ant lion is neither an ant nor a lion.

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Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

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Chickens that lay brown eggs have red ear lobes. There is a genetic link between the two.

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Rabbits love licorice.

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And Blue Tongue Lizards (bob tails) love straw berries

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The eye of the giant squid is fifteen inches in diameter -- the size of a basketball.

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Dinosaur droppings are called coprolites, and are actually fairly common.