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How long could you go without washing your underpants?

The “no wash movement” is sweeping the countryside, as people are seeing no need to wash their clothes as often as they used to. Face it – if you’re not leaving the house on a daily basis, does it matter if you’re wearing the same shirt, shorts, socks more than one day in a row?

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Study: March Madness is the perfect time to get that vasectomy

Scheduling elective surgery is usually difficult with regards to timing. How long will you be out, what will you be able to do during recovery?

Plenty of sports stars do their elective surgeries in the off-season of their sports so they have time to sit around and handle their physical therapy without interrupting other things on the schedule.

But what about the average person? Are there good times of the year to address specific surgeries?

The answer is “yes”. Yes, there is.

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CONTEST: Design a toilet for the Moon, win $35,000

NASA is holding the LUNAR LOO CHALLENGE, a contest to design a toilet that can be used on the moon.

Yes, this will truly be a situation to “go, where nobody has ever gone before.”

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The science behind Penguin Poop

Everything poops.

It’s the “where” and “how” of pooping that makes for a fascinating story.

Take penguins, for instance.

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WHAT DOES OUTER SPACE SMELL LIKE?

Four years ago, NASA hired a “scent consultant” to develop a smell that could be used to train astronauts on what to expect when they finally get to outer space.

And now, we finally know the answer to WHAT SPACE SMELLS LIKE.

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How do Ouija boards work?

Have you ever wondered how a Ouija board works?

Well, scientists have finally done the research and determined exactly where those ghostly spirits come from — and the answer is obvious: they’re coming from inside the house!

They used eye tracking devices to study how people using the Ouija board move their hands. When people have their eyes open, they’ve noticed that people tend to look ahead at what the next letter to be pointed to happens to be. Easy-peasy.

But when people are blindfolded and can’t indicate in advance where the point will go, it ends up being a collective “group think” mentality that ultimately moves the pointer around the board.

You’ll have to read the article for the more technical details, but let’s just say that they didn’t actually say there WEREN’T ghostly spirits guiding the pointer around…

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Drinking milk can kill you, and it’s not because you’re lactose intolerant

Talk about the ultimate “brain freeze”!

There have been many people who have said that “man was never intended to drink cow’s milk, unless man wanted to be as fat as a calf”. For those people, human milk is the only kind to have.

And maybe – just maybe, they’ve been right all along.

Lactaid
Lactaid

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Korean women are getting the most unusual hair transplants

Women overseas are almost always the first to try new fashion trends.  From France to Japan to Brazil – other countries are often at the forefront of what we’ll be seeing American women adopt in the upcoming months and years.

But do we think that Korea’s latest fashion trend will catch on?

Stop Smirking at my Merkin
Stop Smirking at my Merkin