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    Animal
    The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
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    Animal
    The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs.
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    Animal
    The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away!
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    Animal
    The lungfish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended animation.
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    Language
    The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
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    Language
    The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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    Geography
    The longest cave in the world is the 'Mammoth Cave System' in the USA at 560,000 mtrs deep!
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    Weird
    The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
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