Venom Extraction Room’s Snake Meet and Greet is just the start of the weird fun at this facility hidden in the mountains of east Japan.
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I’m sure no one ever wants to see this in their at-home toilet…or any toilet, for that matter.
Tea and cookies at a cat cafe too cutesy for you? We’ve got just the alternative for your next night out in Tokyo!
This is something you definitely don’t want to see poking its head out from your air conditioner.
The dispute between the two Korean nations took a really odd turn when North Korea accused their southern counterpart of releasing deadly snakes along the border.
Could the long, twitching piece of fur belong to the body of a snake or some other cheeky animal?
What was supposed to be a fun reptile show in Phuket, Thailand, soon turned gruesome after a Chinese woman was attacked by one of the snakes in it.
Did you know that a king cobra has venom powerful enough to bring down an elephant? Were you aware that snake anti-venom is produced by injecting venom into horses? How about about that snakes have two penises, called hemipenes, that they alternate?
You can learn all these crazy serpent facts and more at Bangkok’s Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute and Snake Farm, as well as take in a snake handling show, a venom extraction demonstration, and check out about 40 different species of snakes endemic to Thailand.
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