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Wedding Ring Found After Toilet Flush

Wedding Ring Found After Toilet Flush - An Idaho woman was reunited with her diamond wedding ring just in time for her 25th anniversary. Mechelle Rieger, 44, set her wedding ring on a privacy wall in her bathroom 18 months ago as she stood up to flush the toilet. "It was slow motion. That ring bounced off, landed in the toilet just as it was flushing down and it just took off," she told ABC News. "It was long gone." Rieger said her husband took apart the toilet and pipes, but her ring was...

Swedish Woman Finds Lost Wedding Ring on a Carrot

Swedish Woman Finds Lost Wedding Ring on a Carrot - A Swedish woman got the surprise of a lifetime when she pulled a small carrot out of her garden at home. Fit snugly around the carrot was the wedding ring she had lost 16 years ago. Lena Paahlsson told the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter that she "had given up hope" that she would ever find the ring she had lost in 1995, according to the BBC. The ring, a white gold band with seven small diamonds, had been designed by Paahlsson herself. ...

Why ‘The Heat’ Is Depressing

Why ‘The Heat’ Is Depressing — It’s the first time that two women are top-lining a buddy cop movie— and ‘The Heat,’ starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, is expected to be a huge hit. But don’t expect it to change Hollywood. Dozens upon dozens of buddy cop comedies have come and gone at the box office over the years, mostly starring gruff straight men cracking wise while chasing outlandish criminals. We’ve even had one buddy cop flick, Turner & Hooch, that starred...

Female Flies Expel Sperm and Eat It

Female Flies Expel Sperm and Eat It - Female Ulidiid flies have a kinky habit: After mating with a male, they expel his sperm and eat it. The odd behavior may help these lady flies choose which guy flies will father their young, researchers reported online today (April 11) in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. Studying a species of "picture-winged fly," known as Euxesta bilimeki, researchers found that 100 percent of the 74 fly couples they studied spewed out ejaculate...

The Happiest Tech Companies

The Happiest Tech Companies — Tech companies are already well known for some of the extra benefits they offer their employees, but several companies stand head and shoulders above others in keeping their workers happy, a new poll has found. The survey, based on reviews on the site CareerBliss, ranked and rated the happiest tech companies in the United States. Overall, workers at Intuit were found to be the happiest employees in tech. Texas Instruments (No. 2) and Avaya (No. 3) rounded...

A Spleen Gene-and a Ribosomal Surprise

A Spleen Gene-and a Ribosomal Surprise - The spleen is a very unappreciated body part. The Talmud considered it the "organ of laughter," whereas the ancient Greeks equated it with melancholy. Today it's sometimes used to mean anger. When a spleen bursts, spewing all manner of blood cells, we simply take it out - as happened to Katniss Everdeen in the third installment of The Hunger Games and to Jack Ryan's daughter in Tom Clancy's Patriot Games. But starting life without a spleen is a whole...

Breakfast cereal tied to lower BMI for kids

View PhotoReuters/Reuters - A bag of corn flakes is seen in Bucharest April 23, 2012. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel Breakfast cereal tied to lower BMI for kids - Regularly eating cereal for breakfast is tied to healthy weight for kids, according to a new study that endorses making breakfast cereal accessible to low-income kids to help fight childhood obesity. One in every four American children lives in a food insecure household where breakfast isn't a sure thing, lead author...