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Did you know that the mantis shrimp is the boxer of the sea. With the use of a hyperbolic porabola on the underside of its elbow, the peacock mantis shrimp can puch as fast as a 22 caliber bullet. It's punch can also create a cavitation bubble on impact, something you usually see with explosions under water.

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