Have you ever eaten so much sweet stuff that you felt sick afterward? Of course you have — we’ve all been there. Most of us, fortunately, get over it with a couple of hours of discomfort. There’s usually no need to rush anybody to a hospital for a little tummy ache. You can’t say the …
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If you’ve ever had an eye infection, like pink eye, you know it’s a real pain. Your eye may hurt, be unbearably itchy, and get stuck shut with all the gunk oozing out of it. Still, it’s nothing compared to what this Vietnamese man went through. The 24-year-old man had been suffering from an eye …
Some creatures like to munch on leaves, while others consume nothing but meat. Humans, meanwhile, are omnivores. We have the natural ability and need to eat meat and plants. Don’t tell that to this Florida man with a bizarre diet, though. The man had decided to lose weight and get healthier by becoming carnivorous. He …
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In general, drugs are not good for you. But they’re even worse if you’re not even a human being that’s supposedly meant to consume them. That’s why vets are quite concerned over an alarming trend — more and more pets are ingesting drugs. A recent study examined the rates at which pet owners were calling …
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These crazy body facts might surprise you! Did you know you’re taller when you sleep at night? Your skeleton regenerates every 10 years so the bones you have will be brand new in about that time. As you age, the process takes longer and leads to your bones naturally thinning. Did you know about this …
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Did you read Crazy Body Facts That Are Good To Know: Part One? Because this is part two. Your butt is the largest muscle in your body. The gluteus maximus helps you keep your body upright, move at your hips and thighs and to work against gravity when you’re walking up stairs or a hill. …
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If you want your plants to thrive — whether they’re daisies, roses, or weed — they’ll probably need fertilizer. However, you should be careful of what you fertilize them with. In the worst case, using the wrong stuff could kill you. These two men from New York found that out the hardest possible way. Both …
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When you’re a parent, you have to teach many things to your child. One of them should be not to bring poop to school — no matter what kind of show and tell they’re having. In this case, however, it turned out alright. The University of Illinois at Chicago (UoIC) has partnered with a local …
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As every cat owner knows, the little furballs can be destructive. They might push glasses off the table, shred your couch, or relentlessly bully the dog. Or they might shatter your skull, snap your spine, and leave you screaming in a pool of your own blood. We’re not exaggerating, either. That’s exactly the nightmare scenario …
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What’s the most horrible situation you can imagine? It may not be this specifically, but waking up as someone is cutting you open and removing your organs must rank pretty high on anybody’s list. That’s a fate that one Kentucky man narrowly avoided. After going into cardiac arrest, Anthony Thomas “TJ” Hoover was declared brain …
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