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Stupid Science

In the 1800s, smoking tabacco was considered safe, but matches weren't. Poisonous phosporous was used to ignite the matches, called Lucifers. This led to a deformity of the bones called phossy jaw, particularly prevalent among workers in the match factories. Another unfortunate side effect resulted from the invention of matches: It made smoking so much easier that the number of smokers increased rapidly.

Dumb Crooks

In 1991, a Florida man who weighed 475 pounds was arrested in an airport after a police dog sniffed out ten pounds of cocaine that the man had hidden in the folds of his enormous stomach.