The fastest flying butterfly is the Monarch, which has been clocked with a speed as high as 17 miles per hour.

There is an Australian man, James Harrison, who has a singularly unique blood plasma composition that has been used to cure Rhesus disease, a hemolytic disease that affects newborn babies. He has donated his blood plasma over 1000 times.

The woodpecker can hammer wood up to 16 times per second.

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