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54 Eww! Gross Facts Every 6-Year-Old Needs to Hear Part 3 · The Story Time With Lucky Podcast

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  Welcome back to Storytime with Lucky Podcast.
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  Today we're going to read more gross facts every six-year-old needs to know.
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  Not only do white banberry flowers look like creepy eyeballs,
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  but they are toxic if eaten. Best to stay away from them.
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  Pufferfish may look cute But they have a lot of poisonous spikes all over their
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  bodies To put off predators,
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  animals that once eats them They can also inflate up three times the size to escape their hunters,
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  There is enough poison in one puff of fish to kill 30 humans,
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  and there is no known antidote cure.
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  A hippo's bite is three times as strong as a lion's.
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  The Nile Crocodile has the strongest bite of all the animals And after chomping
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  down on its prey It likes to swallow it whole,
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  There are over 8,000 species of dung beetle and they all love to poop.
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  Some dung beetles like to roll balls of poop before burying them.
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  Some like to dig tunnels in poop.
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  And others like to stand on top of the poop balls. Eww.
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  Coprophagia. Say it like this.
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  Coprophagia. It is the term of fall eating poop. Ew.
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  Like dogs and pigs do. Ew.
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  A cassowary is one of the world's deadly spurts.
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  It has a razor-sharp claw on each fall, which measures ten centimetres.
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  In the world's biggest hot dog eating competition, contestants have 10 minutes
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  to eat as many hot dogs as they can.
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  No ketchup is allowed. In 2021, Joey Chestnut ate 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes, a world record.
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  A mosquito uses the six needles in its mouthpiece to jab human skin and drink blood.
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  Only female mosquitoes bite and suck on your blood.
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  The naked mole rat isn't totally hairless.
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  The whiskers on its face sense movement,
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  And the hairs between its toes sweep away soil as it digs It may look pretty gruesome,
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  But a naked mole rat's wrinkly loose skin helps it squeeze through tight tunnels.
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  A parafish burps out a giant slimy bubble to sleep inside To protect it from danger,
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  A giraffe's tongue is a blue-black colour to,
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  help protect it from getting burnt in the sun while eating.
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  Bananas are radioactive because of the small amounts of potassium in them.
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  But don't worry, it will not harm you. And the potassium in bananas is good
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  for you. Why is it radioactive?
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  Babies have more bones than adults because as we grow, our bones fuse together.
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  The green-blooded skin, a type of lizard, has green blood, green bones and green
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  muscles and even a green tongue.
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  The largest living thing in the world is a fungus found in Australia,
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  which covers the size of 28,000 football fields.
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  Dentists advise keeping your toothbrush far away from the toilet in your bathroom,
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  so it doesn't get sprayed with germs after flushing.
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  When it rains a lot in US cities, the sewers flood and rats pop up in people's toilets. Gross!
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  Llamas spit when they're crossed. The meaner and the grumpier the llama, the more they will spit.
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  Male, erm, where's this? Male capuchin monkeys pee in their hands,
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  then rub them all over their fur to attract a female mate.
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  Your dead skin cells mix with germs. Ew.
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  Animal skin cells and hair create lots of dust in your home. Ew.
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  Your body sheds around 50,000 plagues of skin every minute.
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  During your lifetime, you will have thousands of different skins covering your body.
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  During your lifetime, the average human produces enough spit to fill over 50 bathtubs.
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  Siberian chipmunks will chew off bits of skin from a dead,
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  snake to rub over their fur to put off other snakes from attacking them Some snakes.
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  Can open their jaws four times wider than a skull That's wide enough to fit
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  a crocodile's head inside Wow.
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  A Shrike may look cute, but it is also known as the Butcher Bird,
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  as it likes to hang its prey on the spiky hooks of a thorn bush.
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  The end, and thank you for listening.