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tierchenwelt.de on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

On February 16, 2015, tierchenwelt.de (the German edition of animalfunfacts.net) helped a contestant win 64,000 Euros on Günther Jauch's German edition of the quiz show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire".

"Mr. Jauch, I know it," contestant Rimvydas Kisevicius immediately responded when he read the 64,000-Euro question. This was despite the fact that the question was quite challenging. It asked: "Who creatively goes hunting with a 'bubble net'?" The correct answer was: "Humpback Whales" - and Kisevicius was even able to explain exactly what the 'bubble net' was all about.

After the question, the contestant revealed that he had read the answer on a fantastic website called "tierchenwelt.de." There, he and his daughter also discovered many other fascinating facts and shared laughs over funny animal names, such as the "fruit bat" (a type of bat).

This illustrates that both children and adults can not only learn something on tierchenwelt.de but also retain that knowledge while having fun. And this knowledge turned out to be worth real money in the episode from February 16, 2015. The episode can be accessed in the media archive on RTL NOW.