Biologists clocked the speed at which the trap-jaw ant closes its mandibles at 78 to 145 miles per hour - with the average duration of a strike about 0.13 milliseconds or 2,300 times faster than the blink of an eye!
The snapping jaws also enables the ants to catapault themselves to escape from enemies!
It's no wonder, then, that O. bauri ants can launch themselves into the air with a mere snap of their jaws, achieving heights up to 8.3 centimeters and horizontal distances up to 39.6 centimeters. That roughly translates, for a 5-foot-6-inch tall human, into a height of 44 feet and a horizontal distance of 132 feet, an aerial trajectory likely to be the envy of circus acrobats and Olympic athletes.
I've tried to steer clear of cheap stuff lately. It's just not worth it. The clothes smell like chemicals (which no amount of washing seems to get out), the shoes give you blisters, and the toys... well, I guess they're okay if you don't mind a bit of heavy metal exposure. I may not have the newest and best of everything, but at least I know that what I do have will last a while... and won't cause me physical harm.
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Remember in the 60s and 70s they would last for years and it was no sin to patch them as they got faded.
Now all jeans look new and are thrown out with any sign of wear. If you want them faded and with holes in them, you buy them that way.
Also T shirts are another example of items that are discarded after any wear