Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
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Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.
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Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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Some Chinese-made hair bands were fashioned from recycled condoms.
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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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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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