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TIL about the Pistol Shrimp, a crustacean that kills its preys with bullets made out of bubbles. The clicking of its claws are so loud that the US Navy used its colonies as an “acoustic screen” to hide from the underwater hydrophones in Japan's harbours during WWII.

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