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To capture food, jellies have a net of tentacles that contain poisonous, stinging cells called nematocysts. They use their tentacles like harpoons. When you brush up against them they shoot them out and inject the poison . When the tentacles brush against prey (or,say, a person's leg), thousands of tiny stinging cells explode, launching barbed stingers and poison into the victim.
There are primarily two parts to a jellyfish- the bell and stingers/tentacles.

(I think you know which one stings you)

They insert this little thing called a Cnidocyte inside your skin... or at least that's how I think it works.

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