Earthworm at 10,000 RPM

If anyone doubted the resilience of your average earthworm, doubt no more.

The story starts a few days ago when the dogs were a bit muddy one day from a walk so I used the 'dog' towels on them. After forgetting about the towels for a while I noticing the towels today then forgot about them and they sat out on the cement of the back patio. I gathered up the towels and with a few other old towels and threw them in the wash.

Imagine my surprise when I emptied out the washing machine and found a live earthworm moving around fairly well, which is fairly remarkable as I have a particularly efficient washing machine that spins at 10K revolutions per minute. As I also have a new worm bin it seemed to make sense to add my very, very clean earthworm to my worm bin.