Harvesting wild mushrooms for food is a risky game if you don’t know what you’re doing. Many fatally dangerous fungi look virtually identical to perfectly harmless ones. Confusing them may have irreversible consequences. Californian authorities would really, really like it if Golden State residents learned this lesson. Unusually wet weather has caused mushrooms to… Well, …
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They say the eyes are the windows of the soul. But you can see a lot of other things in the eyes, too. To be perfectly honest, our eyes are a little freaky. In some ways, human eyes are some of the sharpest in nature, and there’s a lot that goes on in those balls …
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Suddenly getting touched in an unexpected place is sure to make your heart jump. But it can apparently also slow it down. The hero of our story can vouch for that. A young man from New York suddenly developed heart palpitations, with his heart racing at a dangerously high rate. He was taken to a …
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You have an ailment and nothing the doctors do seems to cure it. At that point, you might consider turning to some alternative medicine practices. Some of them have a grain of truth to them and may provide some relief. Some are practiced earnestly but do nothing, and some are malicious plots designed to extract …
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Are your eyes tired, sore, and itchy? Do you have redness on your eyelids? Do these symptoms get worse when you’re looking at your phone or a computer? Why, you’re suffering from bixonimania! Or at least that’s what some AI chatbots might have you think. Over the past couple of years, hundreds of people looking …
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Usually, people avoid going to the hospital as long as they can. And if you’re admitted to a hospital, you’d certainly hope to get out at the first opportunity. A Florida hospital is struggling with the opposite problem. They have a patient who refuses to go away. The Tallahassee Memorial Hospital’s (TMH) room 373 has …
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Maryland police recently got stuck with a strange suspected homicide case. The unusual part isn’t that the suspect allegedly shot a man in his car. It’s that he did it without having arms or legs. And then he drove more than 100 miles away in a seeming attempt to escape the cops. He’s also a …
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Frankly, my friend, you’re disgusting. Don’t take it too personally, though, since we all are. The human body is a gross, filthy, and wonderful machine. It does a lot of stuff that is just weird or downright revolting, but still fun and fascinating in its own way. Here are 10 interesting things your body does …
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There are so many more more bizarre psychological situations people have endured! Have you read Bizarre Psychological Situations People Endured: Part One? Dr. Lena Voss, a respected psychiatrist in Zurich had, had a patient that had her questioning herself. She began questioning whether her own childhood memories belonged to her or to her patient. Adrian …
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These dark history stories go from parasites and love to forgetting your mom’s face? What do you think will surprise you most? Divers in Lake Baikal, Russia, led by Sergei Antonov, report stars reflected beneath the water that don’t exist in the sky. Marcus Leung, a software engineer in Singapore General Hospital, hasn’t slept in …