15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.
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Cymothoa exigua is a type of parasite that enters through fish's gills, eats their tongue, and then replaces it.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.
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The Jewel Wasp injects a drug into a cockroach’s brain, turns it into a zombie, rides it like a horse back to its burrow, and then lets its hatched larvae feed on the cockroaches body from the inside.
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An average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
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The chlorine smell in swimming pools is accentuated by the chemical's reaction with impurities (like poop.)
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