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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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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The chlorine smell in swimming pools is accentuated by the chemical's reaction with impurities (like poop.)
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An Indian man known as "Snake Manu" can put small snakes, including deadly cobras, into his mouth and pass them out through his nose.
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The human brain is very soft, having a consistency similar to soft gelatin or firm tofu.
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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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Skittles and jellybeans contain crushed insect cocoons which are used to coat the candies to give them that special shine.
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