Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
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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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Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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Poon Lim survived 133 days alone on a raft at sea by fishing, drinking bird blood, and killing a shark with a jug of water.
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Mosquitoes don't just bite you, they also pee on you.
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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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"Fish odor syndrome" is a rare genetic disorder that causes people to smell like rotten fish.
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