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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The chlorine smell in swimming pools is accentuated by the chemical's reaction with impurities (like poop.)
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"Fish odor syndrome" is a rare genetic disorder that causes people to smell like rotten fish.
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Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
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If a vampire bat goes 2 days without drinking blood, they can die. However, well fed female bats will puke up blood and share it with other bats that they like in exchange for grooming.
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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