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Cockroach
1. Crushed cockroaches can be applied to a stinging wound to help relieve the pain.

2. In 1967 a treatment killed 133 pounds of American Cockroaches that were living in the cage around a Chicago zoo’s prize gorilla

3. An estimated 1 million or more cockroaches were living in a house in New York, along with a family, 24 dogs, 20 cats, 2 mice, and a parrot. The house was saturated with roaches that they had flowed out over the lawns, tree trunks, walls of nearby homes and into the sewers.

4. A cockroach heart is nothing but a simple tube with valves. The tube can pump blood backwards and forwards. The heart can even stop moving without harming the insect.

5.Certain cockroaches prefer the warmth of your inner ear and will crawl in while you are asleep.

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Earthworm
1.An earthworm has five hearts.

2.The largest earthworm ever found was in South Africa and measured 22 feet from its nose to the tip of its tail.

3.A few earthworms are as long as 440 cm long.

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Jellyfish
1.The world's largest known jellyfish can reach a diameter of 2.5 m/ 8ft and their tentacles can grow to be half the length of a football field.

2.A Box jellyfish has 24 eyes.

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Squid
1.A Giant Squid’s eye is 25cm in diameter

2.A squid has 10 tentacles.

3.The Giant Squid is the largest animal without a backbone.It can weigh up to 3 tons and grow to nearly 60 feet(18m) long

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Cows
1.A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.

2.Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 liter bottles.

3.Cows can have regional accents.

4.A cow produces an equivalent of nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in its lifetime.