Reading Time: 2 minutes Now there’s even more reason to beware of vampires. It seems as though there are more uses of blood than just providing oxygen to vital organs throughout the body. Blood can also be used as an egg substitute in just about every recipe, but it has at least one drawback. The taste. The fact that …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The popular carbonated beverage 7Up contained lithium, the toxic element used in many popular battery cells. But it’s also perhaps the most widely used medication for bipolar disorder. The therapeutic benefits of lithium are the reason it was first used in 7Up. When it was released for sale in 1929, only a few weeks before the stock …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Yet another odd law to contend with, although this one has been around for a very long time. Would you believe that yellow margarine is illegal in Missouri? That’s right, one of the world’s most popular spreads, yellow margarine, is illegal in Missouri! But why? Why is yellow margarine illegal in Missouri? It’s not margarine that’s been banned, …
Reading Time: 2 minutes During the Great Depression of the late 1920’s and 1930’s, one of the most renowned criminal figure heads in America ran a charity. It was Al Capone’s soup kitchen for displaced workers in Chicago. But surely there’s more to the story than generosity. Al Capone rose to infamy during Prohibition. As the head of a …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes You have to admire human ingenuity. When there’s a will, there’s a way, and German pilots during WWII proved that point exceedingly well during their unwelcome time in North Africa. What exactly did they do? The WWII German pilots figured out how to cool down Coca Cola bottles in the hot and harsh environment of …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Wanna be stoners, we have some unbelievable news. It’s possible to get a nutmeg high. That’s right, the popular addition to most spice racks can deliver an hallucinogenic high when consumed in large doses. The hallucinogenic effects from nutmeg have been said to be similar to Marijuana. But hold up for just a few seconds more …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Did you know that there if a kind of fruit that when eaten makes any sour food taste sweet? It is called the miracle berry, also known as miracle fruit and it is native to West Africa. The first recorded use of the miracle berry was in 1725 when a French cartographer who was exploring West Africa noted …
Reading Time: 2 minutes The state of euphoria can most often be attained by using illegal drugs such as marijuana, ice and heroin. For those who get high it is a feeling that they love and enjoy. But to get high means that you must first break the law, either by making, distributing or buying illegal drugs. How freaky …
