Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
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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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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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In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes, usually those of young children while they are asleep.
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Some Chinese-made hair bands were fashioned from recycled condoms.
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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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If you see an ingredients list that includes carmine, cochineal extract or natural red 4, the product contains crushed up bugs.
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