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Everybody has hydrochloric acid in their stomach. In fact, it’s one of the bodies first steps of digestion, beginning to break down the food and utilize the nutrients or lack there of. A team of scientists were curious just what it looks like to digest a fast food cheeseburger and the results are not pretty. Watch as a cheeseburger is ...

A year ago this month, my favorite celebrity sex tape of all time was released to the public. And to this day I have not found a video which excites me quite as much. What Mario and Princess Peach lack in creativity (they’re strictly missionary) they make up for with pure voyeuristic kink. The Mario bedroom is always open to ...

It’s a tragic tale. Dreaming of a life on the sea but too prone to sea sickness to pursue the dream any further than the confines or your mind. While it’s true that for people with a poor equilibrium, sea life is impractical, but there are ways to live the seaman’s life without living on the sea. The Wall Tentacle, ...

You have no idea the jealousy your car is capable of. About 80% of all car accidents are caused by your vehicles spite for the way you’ve been treating it. Sure, I’ll take you to get a manicure. Trip to the salon? Sure, no problem. No problem at all. Though I must say it’s funny how you have all this ...

Former JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater caught the eye of the nation on August 9 when he made a grand exit from both the flight and his job. If you don’t know the story, the general premise is that drama queen Slater, according to his story, was driven to his breaking point by a disgruntled customer, at which point Slater ...

Gearfuse has some of the smartest readers on the face of the planet. Andrew’s Fake Facts Weekly recently came out with a study that placed Gearfuse at the top of the list for the number of physicists per 1000 readers. You have to admit, that’s a pretty impressive piece of made-up trivia. The infographic after the jump is chock full ...

I blame this all on the princess. And partly on Steven King. But mostly on the princess. Look, don’t you think after the third or fourth time you were abducted you’d maybe start to consider a safer security system? You’ve driven the poor man crazy. All Mario wanted to do was finally retire from his days of princess rescuing and ...

In this perfectly produced homage to childhood obsession, designer Chris Walt created the Chewie & Han t-shirt, in honor of both Calvin & Hobbes and Star Wars. Walt is selling the shirt for $22 through redbubble. The shirt is available both with and without text. I can’t say I was a huge fan of Calvin & Hobbes when I was ...

A few weeks back we posted about a homemade pair of Back to the Future II style sneakers which were controlled through an Arduino microcontroller. The premise was good and so was the effort, but the motor on the back of the shoes was just too much of an eyesore to be practical. But we might be seeing a much ...

The bestselling book of all-time is finally getting a quality game adaptation to go along. The best-selling novel, The Bible, tells the story of an omnipresent creator named God and his mystical Caucasian son, Jesus of Nazareth, whom grows up in the Middle East around the turn of the 1st century A.D. The Bible Online tells the story through the ...