Some Obscurish facts
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In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes, usually those of young children while they are asleep. The hungry little insect is attracted to the minerals and moisture from the tear ducts—but that's not the only moisture they like to devour. An entomologist was awakened one morning by a tickling sensation, only to find that a cockroach's extended mouth parts were imbibing moist nutriment from my nostrils.
In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes, usually those of young children while they are asleep. The hungry little insect is attracted to the minerals and moisture from the tear ducts—but that's not the only moisture they like to devour. An entomologist was awakened one morning by a tickling sensation, only to find that a cockroach's extended mouth parts were imbibing moist nutriment from my nostrils.