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After being deposed by his brother Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman sultan Murad V was detained in the Malta Pavilion.
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Facts in category: Animals
| A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and instinctive. |
| The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse. |
| The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest. |
| At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces. |
| Polar bears are left handed. |
| A hippopotamus can run faster than a man. |
| Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves. |
| A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound. |
| The heaviest fish ever caught was the OCEAN SUNFISH. It weighed 4,928 lbs. |
| A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. |
| Turtles can breathe through their butts. |
| It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. |
| A dogs sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew. In fact, if you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dogs nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog itself. |
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