Skittles and jellybeans contain crushed insect cocoons which are used to coat the candies to give them that special shine.
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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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When dragonflies mate, their tails form a love heart.
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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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The pea aphid insect explodes itself thereby sacrificing its life to protect its relatives from predators.
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When a male honey bee climaxes during sex, his testicles explode and then he dies.
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