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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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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Mosquitoes don't just bite you, they also pee on you.
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Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.
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"Fish odor syndrome" is a rare genetic disorder that causes people to smell like rotten fish.
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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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Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.
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