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The Strangest Use For Bacon... Ever?
2:36
Everyone loves bacon. Even parasitic botflies living under your skin.
What Lives In Cheese?
2:47
What makes cheese so delicious? It's the bacteria, fungi, mites, and maggots living in it.
You Have Mites Living On Your Face
1:56
Right now, there are tiny mites eating, laying eggs, dying, and leaking feces on your face
What Can Herpes Do To Your Brain?
2:58
Herpes is probably hiding in your nerve cells right now.
Why Most Sand Tiger Sharks Die in the Womb
2:23
Sand tiger shark fetuses eat their siblings in the womb.
Can Cocaine Make Your Ears Rot?
2:32
Cocaine is being mixed with a dangerous drug called levamisole.
Why Do These Babies Eat Their Mother's Skin?
2:28
Legless amphibians, called caecilians, have a very strange way of feeding their young.
Could Kangaroo Farts Curb Global Warming?
2:26
Cows burps release a ton of methane into the atmosphere.
Can Poop Cure an Infection?
2:47
Fecal transplants-putting one person's poop into another person's gut-are surprisingly eff
Sea Cucumber Evisceration
2:33
Sea cucumbers can eviscerate themselves.
Death of Dragon Worms
2:47
Guinea worms have plagued humans for millennia, but they’re almost extinct.
How Different Diseases Make You Smell
2:04
What's making you sick? You might be able to tell based on how you smell.
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