A frog’s tongue can catch flies faster than you can blink. It shoots out of its mouth colliding with the fly, covering it in some of the stickiest spit on Earth. That mucus is so strong, the frog can lift 1.4 times its body weight, the equivalent of a human lifting up a refrigerator with its tongue.

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