Creepy Crawlies
This creature can live without its head for weeks by sealing off its neck and breathing through a structure called spiracles.
Cockroach
This popular scary creature is real! Egyptians embalmed dead bodies by removing all the moisture, preserving fried organs in jars, salting the body, and wrapping the body in bandages from head to toe.
Mummy
This phenomenon occurs when a person is conscious but unable to move or speak, a result of their body failing to move smoothly through the stages of sleep.
Sleep Paralysis
A super-eruption at this national park could cover most of the U.S. in ash.
Yellowstone
The average person shares this item with anywhere from 100,000 to 10 million dust mites!
Bed
When you eat this food, it "eats you back" due to a protein-digesting enzyme it contains, bromelain.
Pineapple
More than half the cells in/on your body (57%) are not human, but actually microscopic colonists like these.
Bacteria and Viruses
This phenomenon occurs every two to three years when Earth's moon is in a total lunar eclipse.
Blood Moon
"Ballooning" is a mode of transport used by this creature that involves casting out a silk thread that carries it in the wind.
Spider
This everyday item contains 10 times more bacteria than most toilet seats!
Everyone has microscopic Demodex folliculorum or Demodex brevis mites living on their eyelashes that consume this waste product of the body.
Dead skin cells
This geologic feature has been known to scream at a high-pitched frequency when active.
Volcano
Osteology departments at museums use the beetle species Dermestes maculatus to clean these objects that are too fragile to be cleaned by human hands.
Bones
This potassium-filled fruit is technically radioactive! But don't worry, you'd have to eat 10 million at once to get radiation poisoning.
Banana
You can share 80 million bacteria when you do this action with a partner.
Kiss
When water collects underground, a cavity can form that causes this feature. They have been known to swallow homes, cars, and even streets.
Sinkhole
This creature, known scientifically as Ampulex dementor, uses cockroaches as incubators for their young by injecting venom to put the roach in a zombie-like state, then injecting it with eggs.
Wasp
This life-saving invention contains a potentially deadly chemical called sodium azide. When triggered, the chemical explodes and transforms into benign nitrogen gas.
Airbag
Although incredibly unlikely, if a person happens to swallow this kind of eggs, a parasitic infection called cysticercosis could result, infecting the brain, muscles, and other tissues.
Tapeworm
Antarctica's "Blood Falls" is blood-red in color as a result of this oxidized element in brine salt water.
Iron