In 2007, an American man named Corey Taylor tried to fake his own death in order to get out of his cell phone contract without paying a fee. It didn’t work.
When a young, free-swimming male anglerfish encounters a female, he latches onto her with his sharp teeth. Over time, the male physically fuses with the female, connecting to her skin and bloodstream and losing his eyes and all his internal organs except the testes. A female will carry six or more males on her body.
"Where the Wild Things Are" was originally going to be "Where the Wild Horses Are" until Maurice Sendak started working on it and discovered he couldn't draw horses.
In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.
At the shortest the life cycle of a dragonfly from egg to the death of the adult is about six months.
I wasn't trying to prove you wrong, I had a dragonfly as a sort of pet. It would visit me when I was outside, it would land in my hand and let me gently touch its wings. It would also kill any nearby wasps while it was around me, their aerial hunting is something to behold.
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