The South American degu, a small rodent, uses urine to mark its passageways. Its urine reflects ultraviolet light, which the degu can see.

Boeing completed more than 15,000 hours of wind-tunnel testing on the first 747.

In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni packed his feces in cans, signed and mounted them, and then sold them as art.

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