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A group of ferrets is called a business.
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so is a group of bishes.
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A blue whale’s tongue weighs around 2.7 metric tons.

Its mouth can hold up to 90 metric tons of food and water, but it can’t swallow anything bigger than a beach ball.

Its heart can weigh 1300 pounds (600 kilograms). It is the largest of any known animal.

A blue whale’s aorta is about 9.1 inches (23 centimeters) in diameter.

During its first seven months, a blue whale calf drinks about 100 gallons (400 liters) of milk every day.

Blue whale calves can gain about 200 pounds (90 kilograms) every 24 hours.

At birth, they weigh up to 6000 pounds (2700 kilograms)—the same as a fully grown hippo.
 
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The high sugar concentration of honey kills bacteria by plasmolysis, meaning that honey doesn’t spoil.
 
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Young male was holding a homemade explosive device. The fuse of the device was lit, and the patient was unable to throw it away before it detonated.
 
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Despite standing more than 15 meters tall and weighing in at over 900 tons, this huge rock has stood in its current spot for a mere eight months. So how did it get there? After the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland erupted earlier in the year the heat generated was enough to melt surrounding glaciers, releasing the rocks and debris that now litter the valley. This gigantic rock is one of them.
 
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With an adult body length of only 14 to 16 centimeters, and weighing as little as 120 grams, the endangered pygmy marmoset is one of the smallest primates discovered. They are normally found in the rainforest canopies of South America
 
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An array of suckers found on the tentacles of a long-finned squid. Each sucker—about 400 micrometers wide, or a little smaller than the width of a human hair—is surrounded with “fangs” of chitin, a hard organic material. Squid use their powerful suckers to secure unwitting prey and feed their robust appetites—much like the horror-movie plant that inspired the image’s color scheme—little shop of horrors, of course.
 
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Glowing nonstop in the Brazilian rain forest night, the new-found mushroom Mycena luxaeterna (pictured both in daylight, top, and in the dark) is something of a source of eternal light, as its Latin name—inspired by verses from Mozart’s “Requiem”—implies.
 
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A type of gastric brooding frog, the likely extinct Rheobatrachus vitellinus had—or has—a unique mode of reproduction: Females swallowed their eggs, raised tadpoles in their stomachs, and then gave birth to froglets through their mouths (pictured above).
 
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