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This $600-Million Room Contains the World's Largest Collection of These Tiny Endangered Animals

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Adam's Fairy Shrimp Room

This room alone is insured for $600 million, and it's built to last with special lights and electrical switches. There are hundreds of thousands of gallons of 95% ethanol in this room that we use to preserve specimens. Ethanol is also highly flammable. We don't want there to be sparks, because that's how you lose museums is fires. He turns big wheels on the sides of the shelves to roll them apart. It exposes a tower of fairy shrimp samples.

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