Skittles and jellybeans contain crushed insect cocoons which are used to coat the candies to give them that special shine.
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Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.
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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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The human brain is very soft, having a consistency similar to soft gelatin or firm tofu.
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The chlorine smell in swimming pools is accentuated by the chemical's reaction with impurities (like poop.)
7
Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.
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