In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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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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"Fish odor syndrome" is a rare genetic disorder that causes people to smell like rotten fish.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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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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In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes, usually those of young children while they are asleep.
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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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