If you see an ingredients list that includes carmine, cochineal extract or natural red 4, the product contains crushed up bugs.
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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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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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Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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Australian Graham Barker has been collecting his own belly button fluff every day since 1984 - keeping it in storage jars.
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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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"Fish odor syndrome" is a rare genetic disorder that causes people to smell like rotten fish.
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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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