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Moths drink tears from sleeping animals

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Sometimes flowers just don't have enough crucial grit to satisfy cravings. Desperate for dietary salt, they gently land on massive resting mammals purely to greedily slurp the moisture directly from their deeply sleeping eyes.

Moths drink tears from sleeping animals
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