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Long-term heavy use of ibuprofen quietly raises the risk of kidney and heart trouble

A single little brown bat can snap up a thousand mosquitoes in an hour

Reindeer eyes shift from gold to deep blue to see through the Arctic winter

A cockroach can live for weeks after losing its head

A cheetah out-accelerates almost any sports car, hitting 60 mph in about three seconds

A hagfish can drown a shark in a bucket’s worth of slime in seconds

A giraffe survives on under two hours of sleep a day and a 25-pound heart

A hummingbird’s heart hammers more than 1,200 times a minute in flight

A sloth can hold its breath longer underwater than a dolphin can

Easter Island’s Rongorongo tablets hold a written language no one has ever cracked

The Indus city of Mohenjo-daro had plumbing 4,500 years ago and a script still undeciphered

A clay disk from Crete is stamped with 4,000-year-old symbols no one can read

Malta’s Ġgantija temples were raised a thousand years before the pyramids

Ohio’s Serpent Mound coils a quarter-mile across the ground, and its builders left no writing

One man built Florida’s Coral Castle alone from 1,100 tons of stone, and no one knows how

Pluto is smaller across than the United States is wide

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