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Friday 6 May 2011

A leech has 32 brains

Leeches are used to treat some diseases. In the past, they were used to cure anything from a headache to gout.
The bite of a leech is actually painless. Leeches can bite through a hippos hide.A leech has three mouths and Millions of teeth. Leeches prefer to live in warm, swampy areas. You can find them under rocks, in marshy areas or swimming in shallow lakes and river. Many a times, they are also found tightly attached to the vegetation s and tree trunks of thick forests.The largest leech recorded till date measures about 16 inch in length. On an average, the size of leeches is between 7 - 80 mm.

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