Flies are deaf.
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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
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When a male honey bee climaxes during sex, his testicles explode and then he dies.
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The Jewel Wasp injects a drug into a cockroach’s brain, turns it into a zombie, rides it like a horse back to its burrow, and then lets its hatched larvae feed on the cockroaches body from the inside.
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Ants tend to survive in a microwave because they find the coolest spot and wait!
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