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Teen Loses Stomach After Drinking Liquid Nitrogen Enhanced Cocktail
While it may seem strange, bars will sometimes use liquid nitrogen to spruce up the presentation of their drinks. Although the substance causes severe burns when touched directly, in its room-temperature gaseous form it creates a fog-like effect and should be harmless.
Trying telling that to Gaby Scanlon. The English woman was celebrating her 18th birthday with friends Thursday night when she ordered a cocktail featuring room-temperature liquid nitrogen at Oscar's Wine Bar in Lancaster.
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Have You Ever Been Confused by Text Message Abbreviations? — Survey of the Day
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Chef Uses Cheese Balls to Teach Food-Flipping Skills
One the questions Chef John of Food Wishes is asked most frequently: how do chefs manage to flip food in a pan? Eventually he decided to film a video for all of us slobs, revealing (with low-stakes snack food) how the pros do it.
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Demanding Bride’s Bridesmaid Email Goes Viral
Being a bridesmaid isn't just fun and games and matching dresses. It's a big responsibility, and it usually comes with a substantial commitment of time and money.
A bride-to-be whose name hasn't been revealed recently emailed out a lengthy missive to her ten potential bridesmaids, telling them exactly what would be required of them if they accepted her invitation to be in her wedding party. The demands were so outrageous that a tipster leaked the email to Gawker, and it has quickly gone viral.
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Kids Prank Mom By Changing Ending of ‘Toy Story 3′
If you haven't seen 'Toy Story 3,' you should probably stop reading and not watch this video. But if you have, you would know that at the end of the movie Buzz Lightyear and friends face certain death via fiery incinerator, only to be saved at the last moment by a giant claw.
Some pranksters decided to have fun with the movie's ending and the target of the prank was their poor unsuspecting mother.
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Heaviest Pumpkin Ever Nets Man $15,000
Ron Wallace was able to grow a pumpkin to 2,009 pounds. And now the Greene, RI man is $15,500 richer for it.
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Do You Skip Breakfast as Much as Everyone Else? — Survey of the Day
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‘World’s Best Father’ Documents Hilarious Scenes With Daughter
Not long after photographer Dave Engledow's daughter Bree was born in 2010 he got a novelty "World's Best Father" mug. But the first-time dad didn't always feel like he was completely on top of the whole fatherhood thing. So to express his constant bewilderment he set up a funny picture of himself absent-mindedly squirting bottle milk into that very coffee-filled World's Best Father mug as he held his baby.
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High School Cross Country Star Saves Competitors Life Mid-Race
Seth Goldstein was "feeling pretty good" halfway through his recent cross country race, as the senior from Cooper Yeshiva High in Memphis,Tenn. was edging toward the front of the pack.
But then something unusual happened. One of the runners he was closing in on collapsed. As the other runners kept going, Goldstein stopped to check on his competitor.
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See Cast of ‘Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead’ Then and Now
'Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead' made it pretty clear from the title what the movie was going to be about. In the 1991 comedy, the five Crandell kids are left in the care of a strict elderly babysitter when their mom leaves for a two-month Australian vacation. When the mean old bat up and dies, they decide to not to relay the news to mom and instead live out their summer free from rules and grown-ups.
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Town Rallies Around Victim of Cruel High School Homecoming Prank
Teenagers are the worst. If you need further proof, just look to Ogemaw Heights High in West Branch, Michigan.
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Hunt Werewolves This Halloween
Do you ever have the urge to hunt a werewolf? If so, you are in luck. The event agency Chillisauce is now offering an overnight werewolf hunting experience.