Skittles and jellybeans contain crushed insect cocoons which are used to coat the candies to give them that special shine.
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If a vampire bat goes 2 days without drinking blood, they can die. However, well fed female bats will puke up blood and share it with other bats that they like in exchange for grooming.
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Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.
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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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A banana slug can be 6-8 inches and their erect penis can be just as long. Also, their penises emerge from their heads. After sex, banana slugs eat each others penises.
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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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"Fish odor syndrome" is a rare genetic disorder that causes people to smell like rotten fish.
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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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