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This list of facts will make you say…huh?

Slugs have 4 noses.

A dragonfly’s first six months of life are spent underwater. After this time, it comes out of the water, sheds its outer skin, and starts flying, but if it falls in the water after it has shed its skin, it drowns.

A leech can drink up to eight time its weight in blood at one sitting.

If you weighed all the earthworms in the US, they’d be about 55 times heavier than the combined weight of all Americans.

The male gypsy moth can “smell” the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

Some dragonflies can fly at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour.

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

Cockroaches can survive underwater for up to 15 minutes.

Since the successful launch of space shuttle Columbia on mission STS-90 there have been more crickets in space than humans.

The average caterpillar has 2000 muscles. The average human has 700.

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

Only the female mosquito bites, the male does not.

Mosquitos have teeth.

Female mosquitoes flap their wings nearly 500 times per second.