From recent news headlines, a 28 year-old Ohio man was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated when police were called to the scene of a crash with injuries. The man, who admitted to having consumed 15 beers, was driving a motorized bar stool! He had made the “vehicle” himself using a bar stool and […]
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Forget-me-nots, the small blue flowers at the side of the road, are so called because a young man who was picking them for his lover tumbled into a river and drowned. His parting cry to his love? “Forget me not!” The common red poppy is known as Blind Man because it was believed that you
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Even broken down into its simplest parts, blood is a pretty complex substance. Vampires drink it, humanitarians donate it, and just the thought of it makes queasy people faint. It makes up 7% of our body weight, and it’s the stuff that keeps us living. So it’s not surprising that the sticky substance is the
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Back in the 16th century, the best way to kill a vampire wasn’t a garlic necklace or a stake through the heart. To stop alleged vampires from spreading disease and feeding on blood, the ancients would stuff a brick in the vampire corpse’s jaw. Thousands of people perished in the Italian plague of 1576, so
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