A family is continuing to grow 13 years after freezing some lucky embryos at an IVF clinic. Tanis Larson and her husband Dave Larson unsuccessfully tried to have a baby for two years — and in 2010, the Canadian pair ultimately elected to undergo an in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment, SWNS reported. Through that process, Tanis Larson wound up with …
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Popeye remains the world’s greatest spinach salesman nearly a century after he made his comic-strip debut on the eve of the Great Depression. The sailor man’s legend is recounted every March 26, celebrated as National Spinach Day in the United States. Popeye was a gruff but noble comic-strip hero with bulging forearms. SPINACH VS. KALE: WHICH IS ‘BETTER’ FOR YOU? …
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A sheriff’s office in Washington state revealed last week that it received a strange call from an aspiring Bigfoot hunter. The Stevens County Sheriff’s Office kept the caller’s identity concealed when it posted to Facebook about the incident on Mar. 19. While the exact transcript of the call was not shared, the office publicized a staff member’s notes from the …
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A non-venomous, two-headed snake’s statewide journey has come to a halt after the reptile underwent major surgery this month. Tiger-Lily, the rare western rat snake with two heads, was set to leave the Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) Powder Valley Nature Center on March 18 until a team member discovered that Tiger-Lily had an “emerging health condition,” according to a …
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Cold therapy has been a popular health trend in recent years, but a new review suggests it might not live up to the hype — although others disagree. Medical researchers from the University of Warwick in the U.K. conducted a review of nine different studies of the Wim Hof Method (WHM), a health and wellness discipline that combines cold therapy, …
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Poetry great Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, California, on this day in history, March 26, 1874. Frost spent the first 11 years of his life in San Francisco until his father, journalist William Prescott Frost, Jr., died of tuberculosis, according to Biography.com. After his death, Frost, his mother and his sister moved in with his grandparents in …
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A Midwestern angler broke a world record last week after reeling in a female carp that weighed nearly 100 pounds. The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) announced the massive catch by fisherman George Chance in a Mar. 22 press release. Chance caught a 97-pound bighead carp during a fishing excursion along the Mississippi River. “Chance was bank fishing for catfish …
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A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killed 146 people on this day in history, March 25, 1911 — and ushered in a host of new workplace safety reforms. The fire broke out on the 8th floor of the Asch Building, home of the Triangle Waist Company, notes Cornell University’s Triangle Fire online exhibit. The victims …
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Time-restricted eating, a common weight-loss strategy often known as intermittent fasting, has been linked to a significantly higher risk of cardiovascular death. In a study published by the American Heart Association (AHA), a group of 20,000 adults who followed an eight-hour time-restricted eating schedule were found to have a 91% higher risk of dying from heart disease compared to those …
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As marijuana legalization heats up the competition among vendors nationwide, some experts are warning about the sneaky side effects of smoking it. Daily weed smoking could cause complications for heart health, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) analyzed CDC data from 434,104 respondents …
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