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If there's one thing on this Earth that has the power to please everyone, it's food. We all need it, we all enjoy it, and we all love to indulge in a culinary treat every now and then. But, of course, we all have a preference for different tastes. Some…
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While many people think of themselves as altruistic and charitable, it's not often that you'll actually see a someone offer the gift of kindness to a complete stranger. There are various stressful situations we find ourselves in without even expecting that we could be assisted by the general public, but…
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The internet gets a bad reputation at times, and it’s easy to see why (even if you don’t have your contact lenses in). It does however have some pretty amazing upsides. Whether it's being able to watch cute cat videos over and over again on YouTube, or scrolling through endless…
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A woman with a super-rare medical condition so severe that she has ended up crying blood has opened up about her experiences in a recent interview. Mother-of-one Jo Daniels, who hails from Carmarthenshire in Wales, was diagnosed with Stevens-Johnson syndrome which affects the skin, mucous membrane, genitals and eyes. Jo first realised that…
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Anything you imagine can end up bringing two people together, no matter how strange or morbid. For Lauren and Darren Easton, it took meeting each other at the hospital after being diagnosed with cystic fibrosis in 2015, to kickstart the chain of events that would lead to them falling in love…
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There are a lot of different skin types out there, and it's not just how you look that it affects. This all becomes clear when you get to summer, at which point some people have a much harder time than others. Personally, I can somehow get away without getting burned…
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It's something that's been long suspected by kids who have siblings and eternally denied by parents who have more than one child: mothers and fathers have a favourite out of their offspring. "How could you think such a thing?" parents will tell their children. "Of course we don't have a…
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Patrick Manuel's historic win in the boxing ring on Saturday night should have been a completely happy moment for him. However, transphobic crowd members made the occasion bittersweet when they began booing the 33-year-old, who is now the first transgender man to fight professionally in the United States. The featherweight…
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Of all the relationships we experience throughout our lifetimes, nothing will ever come close to the bond we have with our mothers. They're not always perfect, of course, and no two people on Earth will share quite the same parent-child dynamic, but they're special, and we ought to cherish them…
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Despite having been around for thousands of years, tattoos still attract a fair amount of criticism in certain social circles today. They're often seen as unprofessional or unattractive, or - to quote my grandmother, who has seen my own tattoos - "not very ladylike". But, of course, giving something a…
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A 69-year-old woman has tragically lost her life after an amoeba made its way through her sinuses and into her brain, as sadly confirmed by doctors who performed the autopsy in this frightening case of personal cleanliness gone wrong. Her case was reported in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, where…
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I don't know about you guys, but I'm always struggling to get my friends and family the right gift for Christmas. I love them so much, but scrolling through Amazon or eBay or Etsy, nothing seems to be right. I could get my mother a lovely necklace, I could get…
