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Four April Fools’ Day Pranks That Could Cause a Break-Up
If you’re pulling an April Fools’ Day prank on your boyfriend or girlfriend tomorrow, just don’t do anything on this list. Here are four April Fools’ Day pranks that can end up causing a break-up . . . Read More »
7% of Women Would Want to Date a Gynecologist… And Some More Doctor Dating Stats
Believe it or not, according to a new survey, 7% of single women say they’d love to date a gynecologist . . . because he knows what he’s doing down there. Read More »
Eating 44 Pounds of Chocolate Is as Good For You as Exercising?
This is one of those stories that sounds like amazing news but gets less and less amazing with every detail. But that’s a spoiler . . . for a few brief, shining moments, bask in the glory of this sentence:
Chocolate is better for you than exercise!
Now that you’ve heard it . . . time to kill your dreams.
Chocolate contains a chemical compound called flavanols. Researchers at Columbia University and New York University found that a large dose of them were better for the brain than exercising.
They increased the blood flow to the brain, improved people’s memory, and made them sharper overall.
BUT . . . it took a TON of flavanols to do it. The researchers used a concentrated form of cocoa powder for the test. To get the effects at home, you’d have to eat 44 POUNDS of chocolate in a DAY.
And while that’s better for your brain than exercise . . . it’s way worse for your body. So . . . until we can get our hands on that concentrated cocoa powder, this study basically has no effect on our lives.
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70% of Us Regularly Text the Wrong Person
Do you find yourself accidentally sending texts to the wrong people all the time? With hilarious results? And by “hilarious” I mean humiliating and potentially devastating.
Here are five results from a new survey that show you’re not alone . . . Read More »
The Most Dangerous Time to Be Home Is 6:30 P.M. on Saturday
If you cooked dinner on Saturday night, apparently you should consider yourself lucky to be alive!!
A new study found the most dangerous time to be home is 6:30 P.M. on Saturday. Read More »
A Basketball Player Called a Reporter “Beautiful,” and Didn’t Realize His Microphone Picked It Up
A basketball player for the University of Wisconsin named Nigel Hayes was part of a team press conference on Wednesday, and whispered to one of his teammates about how beautiful one of the stenographers was.
But he didn’t realize his microphone could pick him up. Or maybe he DID realize, because he also joked around with a different stenographer last weekend, and tried to mess her with her by using big words.
The Most Common Nickname for Babies Is “Peanut” . . . the Least Common Include Punkin Head and Lil’ Fatty
It’s really common to give your baby a nickname while it’s still in the womb . . . maybe you don’t want to jinx things by using the REAL name you picked, or you don’t know the gender, or whatever.
There’s a pregnancy app called Ovia that studied the data from two million of their users to find the most common . . . and strangest . . . baby nicknames.
The most common thing people call their future child is . . . Peanut. Bean is number two . . . Baby is number three.
As for the strangest nicknames, here are 10 of our favorites and the states they came from . . .
Baby Eskimo in Alaska . . . Happy Meal in Colorado . . . Punkin Head in Oklahoma . . . Lil’ Fatty in Mississippi . . . Pizza Bagel in Illinois . . . Fish Stick in Minnesota . . .
Lil’ Ass Kicker in Massachusetts . . . Mini Toot in West Virginia . . . Smushface in Ohio . . . and finally, Texas in Texas. That’s right: People in Texas nickname their babies “Texas.”
Here’s a map with all the top nicknames!