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If you are an adventurer be sure to check out the longest suspension footbridge – 1621 feet long and 26” wide - in the world.  Located in Switzerland, 279 feet above the ground between Zermatt and Grachen.  The previous bridge ...

Women who are trying to get pregnant through IVF (in vitro fertilization) are finding that if they eat too many fruits and vegetables that are sprayed with pesticides might be the reason they can’t conceive. A study of Pesticides and ...

The Pew Research Center ranked 232 countries and territories based on their religious makeup. Here’s how some placed, from most to least diverse: ...

Cough syrup with codeine has become a high black-market item in Nigeria where one pharmaceutical company stated that they can sell one million cartons a week.  Since alcohol is banned in Nigeria the people have gone to getting high on ...

According to a report from the foundation Walk Free there are over 14 million people are living in slavery.  The foundation reported that this number includes adults and children.  Which is about 40% of the global amount.  The highest numbers ...

Fewer people are being killed by lightning strikes due to better ways to get out of its way.  In the United States we have learned that we can get out its way by having covers over us that don’t attract ...

Why do people complain? Not to torture others with their negativity, surely. When most of us indulge in a bit of a moan, the idea is to "vent." By getting our emotions out, we reason, we'll feel better. But science suggests ...

Getting enough sleep may help you maintain good health.  That may sound fairly simple, but most people don’t get enough sleep.  A survey of over 30.000 people in England found that the people that got the right amount of sleep ...

Rich foreign countries are buying up Thai farmland to ensure their own food supplies, said Sanitsuda Ekachai. An international nonprofit farmers’ rights group has documented “an alarming trend of governments and corporations buying up farmland on a large scale in ...

The Chinese government has revealed that it has a nationwide surveillance system to track dissidents, and it bears the same name as the evil computer network that tries to destroy humanity in the Terminator movies. Skynet, begun in 2005, has ...