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The life of a pet owner can be full of surprises. Usually, though, your pets don’t earn you extended hospital stays. Unless, of course, they happen to take a dump in your mouth. That’s what happened to British mother Amanda Gommo who happens to sleep with her mouth open. Her chihuahua Belle had a nasty …
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Since the dawn of time, mankind has gazed into the star-filled night sky. Silently, we’ve wondered: “What would it be like to have sex up there?” What, you haven’t? It’s just us? It can’t be just us. If it was, NASA wouldn’t officially have a policy of silent disapproval toward space sex. But sooner or …
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Many religions around the world have institutions comparable to monks and nuns. A crucial part of these traditions is denying yourself some basic aspects of human life — like having children, or sex in general. But there’s also one issue — having sex and producing children is a basic aspect of human and, frankly, all …
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“Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get,” said Forrest Gump. Apparently, you could swap chocolate for a KFC sandwich and the saying would still be correct. That’s probably what JoAnn Oliver — a grandmother from Jackson, Georgia — thinks, at least. Her recent visit to KFC came …
Did you read 47 Fitness Facts at Home or the Gym: Part One? Because this is part two: With that, many workout video tapes began to surface. Pregnancy workouts came out, workouts to shape your butt, videotapes to stationary bikes and treadmills were released. Eventually, the market was saturated with workouts Famous faces helped push …
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Out-of-control animals appear to be wreaking havoc all around the globe. In Japan, marauding monkeys are harassing people, while Hawaiians battle feral chickens. We can now add Australia to the list of countries locked in combat with an animal menace. But in this case, the enemy is much more intelligent than in the earlier wars. …
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There’s been a lot happening in chess lately. This is strange, considering you don’t really ever hear anything about the chess world. A while back, a chess robot broke a 7-year-old player’s finger during a Russian chess tournament. And now, the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis featured a massive surprise. Nobody got injured, but one …
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In case you haven’t heard — Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom, died on September 8 after reigning for 70 years. We’re not sure how you could’ve missed the news, though. After all, even the Queen’s bees have been told about it. There are a lot of old and arcane rituals and traditions …
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Work accidents are always serious business. But they don’t usually send you drifting aimlessly through the skies for days on end. Unless you happen to be a pine nut harvester from China. Then you run a very real risk of taking to the air uncontrollably. That’s just what happened to one nut picker. The hydrogen …
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It’s never nice when somebody leaves garbage all over a public space. But at least in most cases, the trash is just empty drink bottles and cans, food wrappers, takeaway boxes… Stuff that’s fairly easy to clean. But the town of Bolton, Vermont, is struggling with a different kind of waste. Somebody keeps dumping into …
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