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Archive for 2008/11/13


Early diet pills claimed to contain tape worms

Welcome back!I was wandering around on snopes.com just now because I find that site a little bit addictive. I picked up a bit of trivia that is both interesting and slightly disgusting. It seems that around the beginning of the 20th century some companies were advertising diet pills that worked because the capsule actually contained […]

Weird News: womand found living with 3 dead siblings

It occurred to me that I haven’t posted any bizarre news on here in quite a long time, so I went looking around on snopes.com and was referred to this gem.
No names have been published in connection to this article, but apparently a woman described as “upwards of 90 years of age” was found living […]

You should be so lucky

I must be the luckiest person alive. At least, that’s what some people might have thought if they had seen my inbox this morning. I had exactly three emails waiting:
Email number one declared that I had won some sort of sweepstakes without even entering. The prize was 1.5 million British pounds. At the current exchange […]