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Salt was a valuable Roman commodity given as an allowance to legionaries. This payment was called a 'salarium', giving rise to the term 'salary'. The scarlet tanager, a songbird, can eat more than 2,000 caterpillars in an hour.
Snails can sleep up to three years.
Sloths are so lazy that algae grows in their fur from lack of grooming.
The surete, France's crime investigation bureau, was started by retired crooks. Squirrels use their tails as parachutes when falling.
Giant squid can grow up to 17 metres in length and weigh 2 tonnes. Star-nosed moles can eat a worm in less than 300 milliseconds.
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