People nowadays will do anything to look beautiful (or at least, to not look ugly) -- from Botox to tanning salons to breast implants -- but this fascination with looks isn't a new phenomenon. As these devices show, our forefathers had some strange misconceptions about what could improve their appearance.

During the holidays we all eat a little too much and afterward, we feel pain through heartburn, stomach aches and other gas problems. While overeating causes these problems, there are certain foods that cause more body pains than others due to the body's inability to digest the food. Here are 10 foods that the human body struggles to process.

Receiving a massage is a great way to relieve stress and loosen the knots on your body. The aromas, lighting and music all help to ease your worries and put you into an almost slumber-like state. However, there are so many types of massages that it became inevitable that some weird ones would pop-up. Straying from the normal Thai and Swedish massages, here is a list of weird massages from around the world.

Ancient Confucian philosopher Xun Zi once wrote, “Pride and excess bring disaster for man.”  The last few years have taught us that the inverse of Xun Zi’s maxim is also true; disasters have led to pride and excess, which, in turn, have lead to some of humanity’s finest responses to tragedies.  Here is the countdown of humanity’s recent dim-witted and heartless cracks at human suffering (expect a couple of sequels).

Turns out that hastily shouted expletive could actually be viewed as a type of therapy! Researchers at Keele University found that not only can those lovely four letter words help ease the pain but may actually be part of an evolutionary response mechanism tracing its history back through the generations. No shit!

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