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As much as obesity is a problem here in the United States, at least the food served at fast food restaurants is "food." In some foreign countries, you may get a number of unsavory "optional" ingredients in the food you order from unregulated restaurants. According to an article on cnn.com, "Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical and flavored with fatty pork and powdered seasoning, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in one Beijing neighborhood." Mmmm... pork-flavored chopped cardboard. An undercover TV crew interviews the makers of the buns in the back of a dingy restaurant. The article explains, "Squares of cardboard picked from the ground are first soaked to a pulp in a plastic basin of caustic soda -- a chemical base commonly used in manufacturing paper and soap -- then chopped into tiny morsels with a cleaver. Fatty pork and powdered seasoning are stirred in." When asked if people can tell the difference, the guy said most people can't tell the difference. So the next time you're stuffing your face with a fast-food burger here in the United States, be thankful that what you are eating is really what you think you are eating. At least I hope so... *UPDATE: Now it appears this news story was fake. Beijing authorities said investigations had found that a TV employee had fabricated the report to garner "higher audience ratings." They moved from fake food to fake news. 

Your chances of getting struck by lightning are better than winning the lottery. But do you really want to do anything that would increase your chances of getting fried by God's thunder bolts? According to an article on cnn.com, "A Canadian jogger suffered wishbone-shaped chest and neck burns, ruptured eardrums and a broken jaw when lightning traveled through his music player's wires." The article also states, "Last summer, a Colorado teen ended up with similar injuries when lightning struck nearby as he was listening to his iPod while mowing the lawn." Jason Bunch, the kid mowing the grass, says it wasn't even raining last July, but there was a storm off in the distance. Lightning struck a nearby tree, shot off and hit him. "It was a real miracle" he survived, said his mother, Kelly Risheill. Now, all of you who are complaining about the ear buds that come with the new iPhone better keep quiet. You might just get your ears fried off.

It's funny to think that the oceans here on Earth are so vast that animals we believe to be extinct are still swimming in them. According to an article on msnbc.com, "Fishermen in Zanzibar have caught a coelacanth, an ancient fish once thought to have become extinct when it disappeared from fossil records 80 million years ago." So what did the fishermen do to celebrate? "The fishermen informed us they had caught this strange fish and we quickly rushed to find it was a coelacanth," said Researcher Nariman Jidawi of Zanzibar's Institute of Marine Science, adding that it weighed 60 pounds and was 53 inches long. Then the fishermen rushed off to the nearest Sam's and bought the largest tub of tartar sauce they could find and commenced to eating the strangely delicious ancient fish. Mmm... delicious.

There's a scene in the movie Jackass where Johnny Knoxville and his crazy buddies zap each other with a Taser gun. They laughed hysterically at the pain their buddies endured but you could see the surprise on their faces when the electricity shot through their bodies. You could see just how much it hurt. So imagine this police officer's surprise when he got zapped in the face. According to an article on statesman.com, "A police officer on duty was shot by a woman with his own Taser during a visit to the officer's home." Officer Charles Jeffers told investigators he'd stopped to use the pisser at his house while on his way to investigate a burglary. He let a woman he knew into his house, leading to her accidentally shooting the Taser. According to the woman, she thought it was a flashlight. When Jeffers told her to put the Taser down, she was "startled and accidentally pulled the trigger." The prong hit Jeffers in the chin. ZZZAAAPPP! Officer down in Dallas!

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