Poop sweats may be odd, but they're not uncommon. Here's what might cause sweating during a bowel movement and what you can do about it, according to GI docs.

species of plant (peppermint)

Back in the days of dial-up, your computer performed a symphony just to get online. Here’s what every bleep, screech, and ding actually did.

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Operation Aedinosaur: The CIA's Mission to Undermine Soviet Censorship During the Cold War Soviet authorities deplored Doctor Zhivago

Like the 5-cylinder engine, these single coil pickups are misunderstood, overlooked and underrated.

The wartime post was a remarkable operation delivering millions of letters and parcels every week, many to the front line.

trousers of the skin of a dead man, supposedly used in Icelandic witchcraft

Aerosmith released 'Walk This Way' on Aug. 28, 1975.

Human pluripotent stem cells robustly engraft into both cattle and pig pre-implantation
blastocysts, but show limited chimeric contribution to post-implantation pig embryos.

slogan (“Work sets you free”) on the entrance of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps

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americans descended from Punjabi people who initially immigrated to Mexico

The dachshund (UK: /ˈdækshʊnd, -ənd, -hʊnt/ DAKS-huund, -⁠ənd, -⁠huunt or US: /ˈdɑːkshʊnt, -hʊnd, -ənt/ DAHKS-huunt, -⁠huund, -⁠ənt; German: "badger dog"), also known as the wiener dog, badger dog, and sausage dog, is a short-legged, long-bodied, hound-type…

table condiment usually made of tomatoes

Nutmeg is used to enhance delicious fall dishes like holiday pies and stews. However, there’s been a recent trend spreading on the internet that you can also get high on nutmeg. While this may be true, ingesting more nutmeg than is found in your typical eggnog…

Glass is used to package many food products: juices, jellies, vegetable oils, baby food, and so on. Glass makes up about five percent of the municipal solid waste stream by weight, two percent by volume.

"Theme from New York, New York" (or "New York, New York") is the theme song from the Martin Scorsese film New York, New York (1977), composed by John Kander, with lyrics by Fred Ebb. It was written for and performed in the film by Liza Minnelli. It remains…

You may have noticed that the ratio of Thai restaurants to Thai people in the US is high—and it's no coincidence.