Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts – not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.

In order to scare away predators, Giant petrels, a type of seabird, throw up all over the intruder.

There was a molasses flood in Boston on January 15, 1919 that killed 21 people and injured 150 people.

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