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April is National STD Awareness Month

What You Should Know About STDs
What You Should Know About STDs

APRIL is STD AWARENESS MONTH, according to the American Social Health Association, the CDC, and Your STD Health.

Why the need for a whole month dedicated to STD awareness?  Because not everyone thinks that STDs can happen to them. But it could…

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Today’s fun fact: Nipple reduction surgery can cost about $1000-$2000

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Nipple Covers

We know you were wondering, but were afraid to ask.

Nipple reduction surgery can COST ABOUT $1000 to $2000.  Some physicians will charge $900 for one, while others may give you a slight discount if you decide to go for a change in nipples on both breasts.

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Science proves why people are afraid of clowns

Evil Clown
Evil Clown

Yes, many people are afraid of clowns.  They call it “COULROPHOBIA”

Even mentioning the word “clown” can bring some people to tears, as if they’re being tortured by a clown.

An aside — if you have the chance to see Bruce Nauman’s art piece CLOWN TORTURE, do it.  After a while, you’ll be asking yourself, “are the clowns being tortured, or are we being tortured by these clowns?” – just like these three clowns said when they were asked to view the art piece themselves.

Or, like TOO MUCH JOY said in their hit, CLOWNS:  “I hate clowns… and I hate mimes”.

Yeah, clowns can be a little polarizing.

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Solar power will rule the world in 16 years

Ray Kurzweil - The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
Ray Kurzweil – The Age of Spiritual Machines:
When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

Ray Kurzweil is a very bright, inventive person.  Forbes magazine, for example, calls him the “ultimate thinking machine” and “the rightful heir to Thomas Edison”.  Among his accomplishments is the flatbed scanner, text-to-speech reading machine for the blind, and a music synthesizer.  He was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame in 2002.

So yeah, when Ray Kurzweil says stuff – people tend to pay attention.

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Monkeys may have thumbs, but they can’t draw worth a damn

Paul Frank's Julius Monkey
Paul Frank’s Julius

That old adage, about putting a million monkeys into a room with a million typewriters and eventually they’ll write the collective works of Shakespeare, may not necessarily be a realistic statement anymore.

At least if by “writing Shakespeare” is the same as “painting art masterpieces”.

So says a recent study from Boston University that says that PEOPLE PREFER ART PAINTED BY OTHER PEOPLE, AND NOT BY MONKEYS.  We know, how could you go wrong with something like this?

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Want to attract the ladies like the swinging monkeys do? Just pee on yourself. Seriously.

The Peepee Teepee for the Sprinkling WeeWee
The Peepee Teepee for the Sprinkling WeeWee

If you have difficulty attracting the ladies, maybe it’s time to take a clue from the animal world and do what they do.

Think about it – there is some truth to how people imitate the strutting, boasting, show of force or elaborate mating rituals that go on in the jungles and forests across the country by animals of all shapes and sizes.

So try not to be surprised if people start to imitate the Human Man’s closest relative, THE MONKEY, COVERS THEMSELVES WITH URINE TO ATTRACT A MATE.

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Little known NASA fact: astronauts can propel themselves in space by peeing in different directions


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Astronaut Costume

Here’s a LITTLE KNOWN NASA FACT that you won’t often hear on any space-oriented TV show or VIP tour:  astronauts can propel themselves through space by using their pee as a propulsion method.

It’s true.

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How To Fold a Piece of Paper in Half, 12 Times

Danica Mckellar is best known in some circles as that cute chick from the TV show The Wonder Years, but as thousands of math nerds will attest, she is much, much more than that.

She is a math genius and has the published papers to prove it.

Britney Gallivan is also a teenage math genius and if her photo is any indication, she and Danica have proven that math nerds can be pretty too.