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Why are whales bad for you?
Beluga whales are at the top of the food chain. A nice distinction, but it also means they acquire the sum total of toxins acquired by organisms all the way down the chain because these toxins such as PCB and heavy metal poisoning don't break down. Belugas, in fact, are so full of contaminants, when they are found beached they qualify as a toxic biohazard.
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beluga whales are toxic biohazards
Beluga whales are at the top of the food chain. A nice distinction, however, it also means they acquire the sum total of toxins in the organisms in that chain. Since PCBs and heavy metals don't break down in any organism they accumulate instead.

So when a Beluga eats a salmon that ate a crustacean that grubbed on some plant, all the PCBs and heavy metals that these organisms absorbed end up in the beluga.

Belugas, in fact, are so full of contaminants, when they are found beached they qualify as a toxic biohazard.
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praying mantis and black widows
A praying mantis will eat a black widow.
Reference: http://www.kidzone.ws/lw/spiders/facts-blackwidow.htm
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How many stomach's does a cow have?
A cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).
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Does catfish taste good?
Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.
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An unusual way to dye an egg
By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks.
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Random fact about lightning
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
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How much honey can a bee produce?
In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.
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How to feed the homeless?
More food is thrown out each day in the United States than is needed to feed its hungry . . . by McDonalds.
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Five Jell-O flavors that flopped
Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
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