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Study shows divining sticks ‘can definitely detect mentals’

A field-study has found that nearly everyone who looks for water with a pair of tree-sourced wooden things is at least one impermeable layer short of an aquifer.

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Posted: Nov 29th, 2012
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What doesn’t kill you may not actually make you stronger, warn doctors

soon afterwards, this man was run over by a truckControversial new research published today in The Lancet challenges the accepted medical wisdom that any ailment which does not result in your death must inevitably make you stronger. Doctors have discovered that among those conditions which won’t leave you feeling better than before are cancer, HIV/AIDS, strokes, Parkinson’s disease, a broken spine, Ebola, heart attacks, radiation poisoning and massive trauma to the head. In fact the study concluded that the only medical condition that will definitely make you stronger is prolonged steroid addiction, but that too can cause premature death.

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Posted: Jul 10th, 2009
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