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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In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes, usually those of young children while they are asleep.
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"Fish odor syndrome" is a rare genetic disorder that causes people to smell like rotten fish.
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Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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The human brain is very soft, having a consistency similar to soft gelatin or firm tofu.
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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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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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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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