These Millipedes Stopped a Train

If I asked you to name an animal that could stop a train, you might guess something big, like an elephant or a bison. Or you might guess a group of smaller animals, like a herd of deer or a flock of geese. But I’m going to need you to think smaller. Like, much smaller. Because this is a story about how millipedes in Japan stopped a train.

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