Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.
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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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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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Some Chinese-made hair bands were fashioned from recycled condoms.
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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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It is possible for you to survive even after the removal of the spleen, the stomach, one kidney, one lung, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, and almost every organ from the pelvic and groin area.
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