An email flier making the rounds since May 2006 says researchers have conducted tests determining that the bottoms of women's purses are more often than not contaminated with fecal material, ... Read More

Dubbed a "silent killer" in recent news stories, inflammatory breast cancer (or "IBC") is a rare but aggressive form of breast cancer with unique signs and symptoms that often go ... Read More

Purported quote from 16th-century astrologer Nostradamus: At the end of the sixth month of 2006, The King of Spain will cross the Pyrenees with his army. The legions of Beelzebub await the battle ... Read More

Via Boing Boing: "Thanks to the Internets, island-critter poo-café is just a click away," notes tech blogger Xeni Jardin. The stinky brew she is referring to is kopi luwak, notoriously ... Read More

"It seems there have been practical jokers from the beginning of time," writes Space/Astronomy Guide Nick Greene, who ably proves the point with his compilation of the greatest space and ... Read More

Circulating via email, the frightening story of a child who suffered a laryngospasm (throat spasm cutting off air to the lungs) after drinking sour spray candy directly from the container. ... Read More

What's the secret behind the popularity of Canada's best-selling brand of coffee, Tim Hortons? A liberal dose of nicotine, if you believe what you read in your inbox. According to ... Read More

Forwarded email recounts the true story of the rescue of a 50-ton humpback whale entwined in hundreds of feet of crab trap lines off the coast of northern California last ... Read More

A bogus news story attributed to the Associated Press claims that actor Jaleel White, who played nerdy Steve Urkel on the '90s sitcom "Family Matters," died last week by his ... Read More

The Miami Herald reports that 23-year-old Shane Thompson was arrested last month after threatening to shoot the mother of his child with a handgun equipped with a raw potato for ... Read More

This bit of armchair activism was inspired by the proposed "relocation" of three glaciers in the Andes Mountains on the border between Chile and Argentina to make way for a ... Read More