Given my interest in collecting anything that is 鈥渄ucky,鈥� you鈥檒l understand why I was drawn to ads for 鈥淵a Shi Xiang Dan Cong鈥� tea. That translates to, and I kid you not, 鈥淒uck Shit Aroma鈥� tea. Of...
Imagine you have been walking the aisles of your favourite bookstore for an hour, letting your gaze gaily hop from one spine to the next. You smell the ink and the paper. You hear the dulcet tones...
It was from these animals that back in the late 1800s American veterinarian Daniel Salmon isolated the bacteria that were eventually named after him. 鈥淪almonella鈥� actually refers to a species of...
I鈥檓 told I鈥檓 full of 鈥�.ummm 鈥渃rap.鈥澛犅燗nd so are most of you.聽Literally.聽So say the promoters of various colon cleansers.聽Actually, they鈥檙e not quite so crass, they prefer to use gentler terms like,...
Rabbits are foraging herbivores, eating mostly grass and weeds. But this fibrous, cellulose rich diet isn鈥檛 the easiest to digest, and by the time their dinner has make it through their intestines...
Fishermen tend to embellish the size of their catch, hence the expression 鈥渇ish tale鈥� for exaggerated stories like the ones making the rounds about tilapia, a fish that is increasingly showing up...
John Wayne did not die with forty pounds of fecal matter impacted in his colon. Where does such a preposterous notion come from? Generally one of two sources. The nonsense stems either from people...
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