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With over 72% of the Earth's surface covered by salt water, the Earth's oceans are home to 230,000 known species. And that's with only 5% of the Earth's oceans considered explored! In celebration of the vast unknown of the ocean, we present our favorite ocean animal facts. Via: AllThatInteresting

Meet the cutest miniature antelope. They're so nice, they named it twice.

Think you know everything about dolphins? Well, think again! Here are some facts that remind us just how intelligent and beautiful dolphins are (which makes us sadder at the thought of them being held in captivity). They truly are amazing animals, and these fascinating facts will only make you love dolphins even more. 

This is the first fact: monkeys are the best. We can all agree on that, right? Our closest ancestors are smart, cute, sometimes scary, have adorable little hairy human hands, ugly-in-a-painfully-cute-way babies, and well, I want one as a pet. Or more like a companion, like Curious George. I could go on all day about how great monkeys are, but instead I'll give you these 20 facts that will blow. your. mind. and have you Youtubing monkeys for the rest of the work day. Sorry not sorry. 

Hippos are pretty cool animals. Here are 11 insane facts that prove this. Use these facts as often as you want (they are especially good for awkward silences and party tricks). Enjoy. 

These photos will have you questioning everything! It's almost as if these insects went and got bedazzled! 

These cat species are crazy adorable! 

Nature never cease to surprise us

We all know that sloths aren't the fastest animals out there... but did you know these interesting and random facts about sloths? Probably not. Knowing these facts most likely won't be as useful as other facts out there, but nonetheless, sloths are cute animals and it can't hurt to learn more about them. So here you go. Enjoy. 

You probably know that cheetahs are the fastest animals on earth. And if you didn't, well there's a fact for ya. But we've got 10 more pretty crazy facts about cheetahs that not many average joes know about. If you want improve your database of random useless facts (we actually think they're very useful, especially for trivia), keep on reading and soak up that knowledge. 

Wow. We knew that turtles were cute, but we didn't realize how cool they are as a species. Do you know how long they can live for? And where they breathe from? And what their tears are useful for? If you don't know the answers to these questions, get reading my little ones. These interesting turtle facts await you. 

Here are some impressive fun facts to memorize and use as a way of breaking that awkward silence at the dinner table. And what better animal to talk about than the king of them all? Yes, we are talking about lions. Who doesn't like lions? They are majestic, powerful, cute and they have nice manes. And we all secretly want a pet lion to protect us, or a friend like Aslan. 

Here's some majestic AF lions that don't include any fun facts, just cool pics of the mighty big cats, and here's some lion memes that also contain no fun facts like the ones on this list.