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Longman Elect JS2A unit 3

STRANGE but TRUE

Bug bites
According to David George Gordon, author of The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook, many people in the world ----- himself included ----- find happiness by eating creepy-crawlies. In the following interview, he reveals the bizarre enjoyment he experiences when he eats bugs.

Reporter : What kind of bug food is your favourite?
David : Grilled grasshoppers. They taste delicious and they're full of protein.
Reporter : How much protein do they contain?
David : Well, weight for weight, they contain as much protein as minced beef.
Reporter : How big are the grasshoppers you eat?
David : I prefer the smaller ones, but I cook with larger ones because they're more filling. The wings of the larger grasshoppers can get caught in your throat!
Reporter : How long do you cook the grasshoppers for?
David : About three minutes. If you cook them for too long, they lose their sweetness and get very hard.
Reporter : How often do you eat them?
David : Hmm... I'd say once a month ----- although I eat bugs at least twice a week. I also have a great fondness for ants and scorpions. You can check out the recipes in my book.

Eeewwwww!
Think you don't eat bugs? Think again! In the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allows up to 68 insect fragments to remain in 100 grams of chocolate, up to 34 fly eggs in 100 grams of tomato sauce and up to 34 insect parts in 100 grams of peanut butter.

Sssafe and sound
Teardrop the boa constrictor belongs to the Probst family of Klamath Falls, Oregon. One day, the Probsts noticed something strange hanging out of Teardrop's mouth ----- an electric plug! The poor snake was rushed to the nearest animal hospital, where vets discovered ----- to their utter amazement ----- that she had swallowed an electric food warmer. The family's sadness didn't last long, however ----- after three hours of surgery, the metal meal was removed from the snake's stomach. Happily, Teardrop made a full recovery.

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Freaky!
One day, ten-year-old Hunter York of Centertown, Kentucky, found a snake in his backyard. After picking up the snake with a stick, he made an amazing discovery ----- the snake had two heads! Hunter named the snake Mary-Kate and Ashley.

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Image the cat was born in Bensalem, Pennsylvania ----- with one head and two faces! Since Image has just one brain, both of her faces blink, yawn and sneeze at the same time. The rest of Image's body is perfectly normal.

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Amazing facts
If you cut off a cockroach's head, it doesn't die. In fact, a cockroach can live for seven days without a head! Do you know what it eventually dies of? Thirst ----- because without a head, a cockroach can't drink. Pretty incredible, huh?

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One person loses billions of skin cells every day! In fact, if you look at household dust under a microscope, you find that most of it is composed of dead skin.

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Paul Hunn of London, UK, has an unusual claim to fame ----- he has the loudest burp in the world (with a volume of 118.1 decibels). When he burps, he makes a sound that is as loud as a plane taking off!

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