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This San Francisco Neighborhood Has So Much Human Feces That It Needs Weekly Power-Washes

"It's really bad. You can't go about two steps without stepping on something," one resident said.

By Natasha Ishak • Dec 4, 2019

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This San Francisco Neighborhood Has So Much Human Feces That It Needs Weekly Power-Washes

"It's really bad. You can't go about two steps without stepping on something," one resident said.

By Natasha Ishak • December 4, 2019

Parasitic Worm Crawls Up Man’s Penis, Lays Eggs, And Then Nearly Kills Him

"It wasn't exactly how I imagined the trip of a lifetime to go. The whole experience was surreal and strange."

By Marco Margaritoff • Nov 19, 2019

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Parasitic Worm Crawls Up Man’s Penis, Lays Eggs, And Then Nearly Kills Him

"It wasn't exactly how I imagined the trip of a lifetime to go. The whole experience was surreal and strange."

By Marco Margaritoff • November 19, 2019

Florida Man Lodges Eight-Inch Screwdriver Inside His Rectum — And Loses Part Of His Buttocks In The Process

The screwdriver was buried deep enough that it had already pierced the man's large intestine.

By Natasha Ishak • Nov 8, 2019

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Florida Man Lodges Eight-Inch Screwdriver Inside His Rectum — And Loses Part Of His Buttocks In The Process

The screwdriver was buried deep enough that it had already pierced the man's large intestine.

By Natasha Ishak • November 8, 2019

Woman Finds Four Parasitic Worms In Her Eye — And Pulls Out Three Of Them Herself

"They were having sex in her eye and one of them is pregnant and has babies," said one researcher handling the case.

By Natasha Ishak • Nov 7, 2019

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Woman Finds Four Parasitic Worms In Her Eye — And Pulls Out Three Of Them Herself

"They were having sex in her eye and one of them is pregnant and has babies," said one researcher handling the case.

By Natasha Ishak • November 7, 2019

Man Unwittingly Got Drunk After His Gut Brewed Alcohol Due To ‘Auto-Brewery Syndrome’

"For years, no one believed him... The police, doctors, nurses, and even his family told him he wasn't telling the truth, that he must be a closet-drinker."

By Natasha Ishak • Oct 21, 2019

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Man Unwittingly Got Drunk After His Gut Brewed Alcohol Due To ‘Auto-Brewery Syndrome’

"For years, no one believed him... The police, doctors, nurses, and even his family told him he wasn't telling the truth, that he must be a closet-drinker."

By Natasha Ishak • October 21, 2019

Man Has Three-Inch Tweezers Removed From Urethra After Four Years Of Ignoring It

This wasn't even the first time doctors had to remove "metal forceps" from a man's urethra.

By Natasha Ishak • Oct 14, 2019

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Man Has Three-Inch Tweezers Removed From Urethra After Four Years Of Ignoring It

This wasn't even the first time doctors had to remove "metal forceps" from a man's urethra.

By Natasha Ishak • October 14, 2019

Special Tribunal Finds Evidence China Is Killing Religious And Ethnic Minorities — And Harvesting Their Organs

The tribunal reporting to the United Nations found evidence of forced organ harvesting of prisoners from the banned Falun Gong religion and the Uighur Muslim minority, among others.

By Natasha Ishak • Sep 27, 2019

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Special Tribunal Finds Evidence China Is Killing Religious And Ethnic Minorities — And Harvesting Their Organs

The tribunal reporting to the United Nations found evidence of forced organ harvesting of prisoners from the banned Falun Gong religion and the Uighur Muslim minority, among others.

By Natasha Ishak • September 27, 2019

Blood-Red Skies Created By Manmade Fires Make Indonesia Look Like Mars

According to government officials and agencies, the peculiar red sky over Indonesia's Jambi province was a result of the country's severe forest fires.

By Natasha Ishak • Sep 23, 2019

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Blood-Red Skies Created By Manmade Fires Make Indonesia Look Like Mars

According to government officials and agencies, the peculiar red sky over Indonesia's Jambi province was a result of the country's severe forest fires.

By Natasha Ishak • September 23, 2019

Japan Considers Dumping Radioactive Fukushima Water Into The Pacific

Over 1 million tons of radioactive water has been collected in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Now it has to go somewhere.

By Marco Margaritoff • Sep 10, 2019

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Japan Considers Dumping Radioactive Fukushima Water Into The Pacific

Over 1 million tons of radioactive water has been collected in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Now it has to go somewhere.

By Marco Margaritoff • September 10, 2019

Researchers Find 13,200 Cases Of U.K. Inbreeding — And Think The True Number Is Even Higher

And that number doesn't even count inbreeding between first cousins. It was only parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, and uncles.

By Marco Margaritoff • Sep 4, 2019

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Researchers Find 13,200 Cases Of U.K. Inbreeding — And Think The True Number Is Even Higher

And that number doesn't even count inbreeding between first cousins. It was only parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, and uncles.

By Marco Margaritoff • September 4, 2019