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  • Pope Adrian VI choked to death after a fly got stuck in his throat as he was taking a drink from a fountain
  • Flies taste with their feet
  • A fly can react to something it sees and change direction in 30 milliseconds
  • A fly always jumps backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it. (Listen up all you fly haters)
  • Assuming that all the offspring survived, 190,000,000,000,000,000,000 flies could be produced in four months by the offspring of a single pair of flies
  • A housefly can transport germs as far as 15 miles away from the original source of contamination.

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