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Can fire ant bites kill you?
A friend of mine says that she heard that the toxins from a fire ant bite stay in your system forever and if you're bitten and receive enough of these toxins that you would eventually die. Sounds a bit silly to me.
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Why aren’t internal organs symmetrical?
This week Cecil gets into the guts of ... guts.
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To booze or not to booze, that is the question.
Submitted by DesertDog, who also wrote the tag, thanks!