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In 2006, this and other genes were given more professional sounding names because they were considered insensitive to those who suffer from mutations of these genes. I mean, how would you like to be told you have a genetic mutation in your ‘faint sausage’? Or that you are particularly sensitive to alcohol because you have a mutated ‘cheap date’ gene? Exactly!

If you asked most people what the most poisonous animal, you’d probably get an answer of some kind of snake or spider; not a bright yellow, 5cm long frog! Well they might look cute but one of these crazy little frogs could kill you with a long distance fart!

You ever said “once in a blue moon”? Who hasn’t but most people don’t know that a blue moon is an actual event. Read one to find out more…

Just like ‘Day of the Triffids‘ right?  The banana plant is the world’s largest herb and can grow up to around 8 meters tall.  The reason the plant is classified as a herb is because there are no woody fibres in the trunk,..which means the ‘trunk’ is actually a stem.  What’s kinda cool is that [...]

Yup, scientists at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, in the Netherlands, managed to use a magnet to levitate a frog!
We all know that magnets pushed together at opposite poles will repel each other but how does something that isn’t magnetic repel enough to levitate? Well the reason takes a little explaining but it’s based on something called [...]

I should point out that scoffing down a bowl of flies isn’t going to help you lose weight.  Other than the fact of course that you’ll very likely be ‘blowing-chunks’ for an hour afterwards.  Regardless,  scientists may have found a way to inhibit the way we store fat from studying these nasty little turd munchers. [...]

Go on, ask any smoker you like if they honestly give a rat’s ass?