Did you know …
That every firefly (or "lightning bug") contains a tiny nuclear reactor in its butt-end? It's true!
Before you get too worked up, however, keep in mind that it's only a tiny, bug-sized handful of neutrons being smashed into a tiny, bug-sized handful of uranium, so if you had grand plans for strapping a bunch of bugs into a special power plant, or convincing them to squeeze together inside some kind of bombshell, think again.
The reaction happening in a firefly's butt cheeks only produces enough energy to create a momentary flicker of light, and that light is only as intense as it needs to be to convince another bug to sleep with the first bug (bugs are laughably promiscuous, and it doesn't take much). Unless your aim is to seduce bugs, I'd say you should just head back to the drawing board and leave those fireflies alone.
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