Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of creator Jim Henson, who became a professor of philosophy at Purdue University.

The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that one bite can kill twenty people or one elephant.

There is a two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand. The Kea likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.

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