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 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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Flies are deaf.
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Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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Placing alcohol on a scorpion's back will make it go crazy and fatally sting itself.
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Ants tend to survive in a microwave because they find the coolest spot and wait!
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Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
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The pea aphid insect explodes itself thereby sacrificing its life to protect its relatives from predators.
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