I did Nuvaring for almost a year and it made me disturbingly food aggressive right before my period. Like, college cafeteria and I wanted to rush everyone in the pizza line and it took every ounce of self-control to wait until I’d found a table to start shoving food in my face. Nexplanon has suited me better, except…

A bit pedantic, but in the second-to-last paragraph, it should say “was nearly 10 percentage points less”. I did some calculations and, comparing survival rates of 83% and 74%, the men are a little over 12% less likely to survive.

A newborn human infant has a grip strong enough to hang off of something it grips with both hands.

I had both on VHS and watched them religiously, and I never even knew it existed until a year or so ago, only the first two minutes that opened the movie on the home release. The internet tells me it was only included on the DVD of Mewtwo Returns, and as a bonus feature.

Have you seen the original opening to the movie, with Mewtwo as a baby? They translated it but cut it out of the original US releases because it’s almost guaranteed to make even the stoniest of hearts weep.

That’s what I was thinking! I’ve still got that holographic Ancient Mew card somewhere in my big old box of Pokemon cards.

Some dogs like that! It’s comforting, like how a Thundershirt can keep a dog from panicking during a storm.

This was the first confirmed case or zika virus in a microcephalic baby born in the U.S. There have been other cases of the virus, but this is the first definitively linked birth defect.

If you haven’t watched Batman Beyond and Justice League Unlimited...

I got into Steven Universe in part to wait out the Gravity Falls hiatus. Also, any webcomic a friend shares with me has a 50/50 chance of never updating ever again.

I was apparently a huge fan of The Count when I was little, although I don’t actually remember much of watching Sesame Street. But boy do I remember Elmo’s World! I think I only watched it because I also had goldfish and nobody else I knew gave a carp about fish.

I got one in my ear, right at the edge of my ear canal. My dad’s girlfriend at the time convinced him it was a zit from me wearing headphones all the time, and it wasn’t until I suddenly had blood running down the side of my face that I saw a doctor about it. Ugh.

There’s a lot of bacteria, like Staphylococcus, that live harmlessly on skin but under the right conditions (such as constant friction, restricted capillaries, having something damp and oily pressed against the skin, etc.) could start breeding pretty quickly.

There was an infamous Cabbage Patch baby that would eat the plastic “food” that came with it, except if a kid tried to cuddle it in their sleep, the “eating” mechanism would activate and it would start devouring any hair near its face. Great way to wake up, with a baby doll trying to rip your hair from your scalp, and…

Cumberbatch has been in hot water with a lot of fans, not just for how straight-washed his performance as Nikola Tesla was, but for how he compared studying autistic children to watching zoo animals in an interview about performing as the creature in a production of Frankenstein. He was weird and special in a way that…

My cat once brought me a live three-foot-long garter snake, but I think the issue with the cucumbers is how freaking big of a snake would have the same diameter. Difference between, say, a black bear and a grizzly, in terms of “oh shit!” instinctive reaction.

My US History class tried to be well-rounded, but every “Social Studies” class I was in seemed to dedicate a full month to the Hollocaust. One teacher passed around a list of names with Hebrew origins, so I kept getting shit for having “a Jew name” because “they would’ve killed you!” (my family is mostly Catholic or…

baby!Spock’s face looks more airbrushed than most fashion models. It’s just a little disconcerting. They both almost look like they’re made out of wax, ala Madame Tussauds.

She’s a hard woman to keep up with. She drives like every trip is a car chase, jaywalks with no regard to traffic (once, I had to follow her diagonally across a busy three-road intersection in Chicago), and can disappear into a crowd like a ninja.

My grandma took me to NYC as a kid and kept almost ditching me. Most notably, we were on the subway and just as the doors were closing she realized that we were at our stop and jumped up and rushed out. My jacket got caught in the door, and I frantically tugged it loose as she somehow teleported to the far end of the…