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== Did you know ... ==
* ... that a '''[[Wombat|wombat]]'''<nowiki />'s droppings are moulded into cubes ''inside'' the animal, by two stiff and two flexible bands in the last 8% of its intestine, because cubes do not roll off the rocks it leaves them on?
* ... that the '''[[Mantis shrimp|mantis shrimp]]''', with up to sixteen classes of colour receptor, is about ten times ''worse'' than a human at telling two similar colours apart?
* ... that '''[[Boaty McBoatface]]''' is cited in ''Nature Communications'' for the first direct measurements of turbulent mixing in the Orkney Passage?
* ... that '''[[Project Pigeon|pigeon-guided missiles]]''' worked, and were cancelled because, in B. F. Skinner's words, "no one would take us seriously"?
* ... that a '''[[Tardigrade|tardigrade]]''' can survive the vacuum of space but dies after two days at 37.8 °C?