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ZacZac

Daily ice cream consumption can reduce diabetes risk by 50%

Ice cream might save the planet. The healthy fats in ice cream can protect you against so many things... 50% reduction in diabetes [from] one serving a day.

While some controversial studies have suggested a correlation between dairy intake (including ice cream) and lower diabetes risk, health organizations generally caution against high-sugar/fat foods like ice cream for diabetes prevention.
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Take Slip·Jan 16, 2026
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Peter CowanPeter Cowan

The electrical substation next to the 49ers facility is causing player injuries by dehydrating their cells.

The wireless stuff, basically it dries you out on the inside. So have you ever taken a rubber band and like left it out in the sun and it goes from being nice and stretchy to being brittle and snaps? ... there's been a lot of research in the past 50 years... showing that it can cause cause harm at the cellular level by dehydrating yourselves among other things.

This is a fringe scientific claim that is generally not supported by mainstream sports medicine or physics.
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Take Slip·Jan 16, 2026
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Peter CowanPeter Cowan

Exposing your 'boys' to sunlight increases testosterone.

Never tried it, but there is evidence that if you get sun on your boys, that your testosterone will go up.

While Vitamin D (from sun) supports testosterone, the direct benefit of local 'sunning' is not clinically proven.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Taking apart a microwave is fatal because it contains an electric bomb

Do never, do not ever take apart a microwave because you'll die. You'll get electrified. They've got like a bomb inside of them. ... You have a nuclear weapon in your kitchen.

Fact ClaimLifeMediumSarcastic
While microwaves have high-voltage capacitors that can be lethal even when unplugged, calling them a 'nuclear weapon' or a 'bomb' is scientifically incorrect.
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Take Slip·Nov 12, 2025
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Joakim NoahJoakim Noah

Ayahuasca allows you to have real conversations with your ancestors in another realm

You go back, you go back and you have real conversations with your people. You know, you go to another realm... The medicine brought me places that definitely put me at peace with things that were, I had turmoil in my system.

This is a subjective spiritual claim that cannot be scientifically verified as a 'fact'.
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Take Slip·Nov 7, 2025
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Big CatBig Cat

Feral cats are a significantly larger threat to bird populations than wind turbines

Cats are responsible for an estimated 365 million to 2.4 billion bird deaths per year in the US alone. And then wind turbines are responsible for an estimated 140,000 to 680,000 bird deaths annually... Feral cats are a problem. That's my, that's, that's the conclusion I came up with.

Data from the American Bird Conservancy and other environmental agencies confirms that cats kill roughly 2.4 billion birds annually, while turbines kill roughly 500,000.
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ZacZac

I was banned from my fantasy league by a corrupt commissioner

I was canned mid midweek last, last week by some what some are saying is maybe a corrupt commissioner. I was kicked from the league... He just like, sorry, had to drop you and because you didn't set the lineup how you should have set the lineup... The commissioner, coincidentally seventh place. I also wanna say commissioner, coincidentally first guy to make trades with the team.

Factually true that he was removed from the league, though 'corrupt' is an interpretation.
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Take Slip·Oct 3, 2025
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Big CatBig Cat

I am donating all my 50/50 raffle winnings plus an extra $25,000 to charity

I am gonna donate all the money and then some... I'm donating all the money and then more, I'm, I, I wrote Lavante a check for 75,000, which will hopefully get them back on their feet. And I'm just doing it. I'm the 50 50 is the love of the game... it was never about the money.

Big Cat confirmed the donation on social media following the episode.
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Take Slip·Sep 12, 2025·Picks
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Big CatBig Cat

A Bengal tiger would kill a Jaguar in a fight every single time

I just looked at AI and a Bengal would kill a Jaguar like a hundred out of a hundred times. A Jaguar does have one of like the the fiercest bites in the animal kingdom. The problem is the Bengal outweighs the Jaguar by like 200 pounds.

Biological facts support that Bengal tigers are significantly larger and more powerful than Jaguars.
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Take Slip·Jul 23, 2025
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Chase UtleyChase Utley

Cutting dairy from my diet cured my chronic knee pain in three weeks

I was having knee issues and I was... I needed to make some adjustments... I told myself, I'm gonna do it [go dairy free] for a month... probably about three weeks into it, honestly, I felt so much better. My body just felt fresher... I attributed it to the lack of dairy at the time.

Personal health experiences are subjective, but Utley is sincere about this being the cause of his recovery.
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Take Slip·Jul 9, 2025·FAQ
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ZacZac

I am not an intercourse guy

Not much of an, not much of an intercourse guy.

This is a personal lifestyle claim by Zac.
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Take Slip·Jul 2, 2025
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Joey ChestnutJoey Chestnut

Bratwurst has the worst physical aftermath of any competitive eating food

There's a couple that like, I know going in, they're gonna be rough. Like anything with bratwurst, bratwurst, man, there's, they add extra fat in there and it, it's, it's running through you. It, it, it, it's, you're not in control. It's there. There's, there's accidents bound to happen there.

This is based on his personal experience as the GOAT of eating.
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Take Slip·Jul 2, 2025
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Joey ChestnutJoey Chestnut

I can eat two gallons of soft-serve ice cream in eight minutes

I'm thinking close to, close to two gallons worth. It'd be, it'd be like, so I did an ice cream contest and after the contest I was like shivering because I was so, like, it was like everything was cold. So I, I think close to two gallons would be in, in about eight minutes.

Chestnut has various world records; this specific volume is plausible given his history.
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Take Slip·Jun 11, 2025
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Magnus CarlsenMagnus Carlsen

I am the undisputed greatest chess player of all time

I'm not sure I'm the right person to, to ask really, but I don't mind. That's that's completely fine by me... I feel like I'm, I'm getting there. So, that's all I can ask for.

By Elo rating and duration as World No. 1, Carlsen is widely considered the GOAT by most modern metrics.
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Take Slip·Jun 11, 2025
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Magnus CarlsenMagnus Carlsen

I am currently the best at every single format of chess

At the moment I would say that I, I'm definitely the best at every, at every format that we we play. And honestly, my closest competitors are still the, the old guys, guys around my age. So yeah, the kids, they're good, but they're, they're not quite quite there yet.

Magnus has held the triple crown (World Champion in Classical, Rapid, and Blitz) simultaneously multiple times.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Kidney stone pain is worse than childbirth

Also, the doctor again for the second time told me that this pain is worse than childbirth. Which I will not be saying to any women, but it's true... I've given birth to like 13 kidney stones. I'm as tough as Philip Rivers' wife.

This is a commonly debated anecdotal claim in medical circles but inherently subjective.
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HankHank

My Instagram algorithm is 80% golf and 20% tits

It's like 80% golf. No, there's some, there's some, there's some tits mixed in, but mostly golf.

This is a personal claim about his own device that cannot be externally verified.
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Take Slip·Feb 12, 2025
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Joe BurrowJoe Burrow

It takes two years for a wrist ligament injury to return to full mobility

Whenever you have a ligament injury, your joint is gonna take around two years to get all the mobility back and everything that you feel like you need.

This aligns with medical recovery timelines for complex ligament surgeries.
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HankHank

I will not be able to shoot 20 three-pointers in a row

I misinterpreted what the initial discussion was. I'm not gonna be able to shoot 20 threes in a row. That's it... 20 for 20, which is impossible. I think 20 for 25 is possible. Obviously that's not what we discussed.

Hank failed to complete the challenge in the subsequent video released.
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Big CatBig Cat

I have a broken pinky finger that I'm just going to leave untreated

I do think I have a broken pinky. I've had it for two weeks. I don't know what to do about it. I don't think you can do anything for a broken pinky... I think I'm just like a hurt hand guy for the rest of my life.

He later confirmed it was indeed broken through an X-ray on social media.
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Take Slip·Sep 4, 2024
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Forrest GalanteForrest Galante

The Tasmanian Tiger is likely not extinct and lives in Papua New Guinea

The one that sits on the top reign supreme is an animal called a Thylacine. Tasmanian tiger... it managed to get a pilot and get picked up and turned into a series... because it used to range like 4,000 years ago... there are still ongoing reports from tribes and villages of striped dogs and all these things in Papua New Guinea. That's the area that I think needs the biggest exposure.

The animal is officially declared extinct. Discovery would be one of the greatest scientific finds of the century.
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Big CatBig Cat

Jumping at the last second in a falling elevator will save your life

If you're an elevator and it falls and you jump at the end, you survive... I just looked it up. It's not true. It's not true. You would die.

As Big Cat discovers mid-sentence, physics dictates that jumping does not negate the velocity of a terminal elevator fall.
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HewyHewy

Chocolate milk comes from brown cows

I thought chocolate milk came from brown cows... I was up north driving past a brown cow and I pointed to my cousin, I said, you know, chocolate milk comes from those things.

Chocolate milk is white milk with cocoa/sugar added; the cow's color is irrelevant.
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HewyHewy

I would rather buy new clothes than walk through a spider-infested hallway to do laundry

I have to share that laundry room with three other units... there's spiders all the way up and down the wall... I'm afraid to go down there... So I bought new clothes, bought just essential stuff.

Huey confirms this is his actual current lifestyle choice.
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HankHank

Hitting too many 'dingers' caused my bicep tendonitis

I have bicep tendonitis in my right arm from hitting dingers... it hurts to lift my right arm. So the backswing, there's a lot of pain.

Hank's personal injury diagnosis, though its cause is based on his own perception.
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Take Slip·Jul 15, 2024
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Big CatBig Cat

Tornadoes do not hit big cities

You gotta worry about the tornado—tornadoes don't hit cities though. That's good. Like big cities. I think it's something about like the wind or something in the big, in the buildings, buildings stopping it. I don't know... I think they—tornadoes do not hit big cities.

He later looks it up and admits it is 100% false, citing an F3 tornado that hit Fort Worth in 2000.
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Take Slip·Jul 15, 2024
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Baker MayfieldBaker Mayfield

I saw a bright circle UFO in Austin, Texas

Literally like, we got the, the screen on the car's real bright... Emily's in the passenger seat. She's looking at her phone, this like, like circle shape object. Like bright as hell. Literally just goes from right here and goes straight down. She was looking at her phone... it was so bright that she looked up and saw it too and it just like disappeared. Like completely disappeared.

While it's a personal account that can't be scientifically verified by a transcript, Baker is adamant about the claim.
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Take Slip·Jul 8, 2024
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Big CatBig Cat

Taxes are optional in Greece

In Greece, taxes are optional. And then their economy just crumbles every like 10, 15 years. They're like, Hey, we should probably start paying taxes. ... I looked, I just, I just Googled that. Yes. Currently more than half of Greek households are exempt from any personal income tax.

While tax evasion has been a historical issue in Greece, taxes are legally mandatory. The 50% exemption stat he found likely refers to low-income thresholds, not optionality.
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Take Slip·Jun 26, 2024
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Big CatBig Cat

I can chug a beer faster than Taylor Lewan

I can chug faster than Taylor... [Lewan] put it down in like 3.8 seconds... the boot? ... I can't [do] that. One beer. [But] I beat Dana Beers too.

Requires a direct head-to-head chug to verify definitively.
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Take Slip·May 13, 2024
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Julian EdelmanJulian Edelman

Gronk is actually a savant with numbers

I'm telling you right now. Gronk knows numbers, bro... whenever we used to talk contracts... I would always bust his balls like, yo, what's square root of this, Gronk? 144. He'd be like 12, dude! Like, he really knows numbers pretty well, dude. Not joking.

Gronk's intelligence is a matter of personal observation from his teammate.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

Technically Vanny Woodhead does not exist and is legally destroyed

Technically it's destroyed. Legally it's chopped up. But I kind of, I couldn't, I didn't have the heart to chop it up, so I just been keeping it. No, one [owns it]. The, it's technically like scrap. It's a ghost car. It just hasn't been scrapped.

While the physical van existed, Billy's claim about its legal status (scrapped) was likely accurate based on his failure to maintain registration/insurance and his instructions to destroy it.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Flaco the Owl was likely murdered and didn't just die from a building collision

It says he didn't break any bones, but he sustained massive hemorrhaging inside his body. This seems like somebody else had a hand in it. We need to check the flight logs. Was Flaco on the list? This Owl probably had information that would've led to the arrest and subsequent conviction of Hillary Clinton.

The autopsy confirmed the death was due to acute traumatic injury from hitting a building, compounded by pigeon herpes and rat poison in his system. The Hillary Clinton link is a joke.
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Big CatBig Cat

The 'pregnant' stingray Charlotte isn't actually pregnant and is just fat

Charlotte, the pregnant Stingray has still not given birth, which makes me think this might be a publicity stunt... if a shark had relations with a female Stingray who is pregnant even though she hasn't seen a male stingray in eight years... we need a conclusion to this. Otherwise she's just fat.

The aquarium eventually announced that Charlotte was not pregnant but actually suffered from a rare reproductive disease, confirming Big Cat's skepticism.
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Take Slip·Feb 16, 2024
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Amphibians have ears that connect directly to their brains

One thing I know about lizards and amphibians, they've got ears that connect directly to their brain. Could I sing a note so high that the vibration of it kills everyone's tadpole?

Many amphibians and reptiles have simpler auditory structures (like the tympanum) that connect to the inner ear and brain, but it's not a unique 'direct' connection in the way he implies.
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Take Slip·Feb 7, 2024
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HankHank

The Larry the Goldfish tattoo looks bad because I used a frozen dead corpse as the reference

I never told you guys. 'cause I knew I would've never heard the end of it... [The tattoo artist] asked for a reference picture. And I was like, whoa, I can get a reference picture. He's in the freezer so let me go take a picture... he had already done the full dead tattoo on my body where I was like, oh my God, this is a dead goldfish. I could've just Googled goldfish and it wouldn't have mattered.

Confirmed by Hank's own admission of his past actions.
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Take Slip·Dec 15, 2023·Picks
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Birds stand facing into the wind because they like 'adversity'

Did you know that? You can tell which way the wind is blowing by how birds are standing. Birds always stand facing into the wind. Oh, they like the adversity. They don't wanna get blown away too. Because if they, if the wind kind of gusts, then they just take off and fly away.

Fact ClaimLifeMildSarcastic
Birds do typically face into the wind to keep their feathers from being ruffled and for easier takeoff, though they don't do it for 'adversity'.
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Take Slip·Sep 22, 2023·Picks
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Patriots' lighthouse is not a 'real' lighthouse because it's not visible from a federal body of water

It's not a lighthouse if it's not visible from a federal body of water... It's a fucked up stupid lighthouse. They call it a non-traditional lighthouse. A.k.a. not a lighthouse.

The Coast Guard definition PFT cites is technically for 'federal aids to navigation.' Whether the public considers it a 'lighthouse' is subjective.
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Take Slip·Sep 15, 2023·Picks
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The torch on the Statue of Liberty makes it the biggest lighthouse in America

It's actually the second biggest lighthouse in America. The Statue of Liberty is the biggest lighthouse. It was used as a lighthouse. You fucking moron. It's not a lighthouse American history. It was used as a lighthouse. There's a light at the top of that thing. It's the torch. The torch. It's the most famous torch in America.

The Statue of Liberty was officially a lighthouse from 1886 to 1902, though it is no longer one.
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Take Slip·Jul 31, 2023
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Billy FootballBilly Football

Polar bears are 'huge pussies' compared to grizzly bears

Polar bears are huge pussies. They actually, every time they meet grizzly bears in the wild, they like run away. 'cause grizzly bears are about that action. They scrap harder than polar bears. It's because their population densities are higher. So they see other grizzly bears and fight them more.

While polar bears are larger, observations in areas where they overlap (like Kaktovik, Alaska) have shown that grizzly bears often dominate polar bears at carcasses despite the size disadvantage, possibly due to higher aggression levels.
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Take Slip·Jul 21, 2023
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Josh DuhamelJosh Duhamel

Dirt bikes are the only effective way to escape Los Angeles when society collapses

If something goes sideways in LA and there's riots in the streets... you only have the freeways out and those can lock down quickly. So how do you get out? Well, dirt bikes. Dirt bikes is the answer.

In a total gridlock scenario, a motorcycle or dirt bike is objectively the only vehicle capable of navigating between lanes and off-road.
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Take Slip·Jul 10, 2023
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Sam DarnoldSam Darnold

I felt ghosts in the pool house at George Kittle's home

It was very creepy. And I had never dealt with anything like that before. ... I like just like couldn't like, I had to like, keep focusing on this thing in the co like there was something else in the room. ... I felt that something was in the room with me. And it was the the freakiest thing.

The existence of ghosts is scientifically unproven, but Darnold is claiming it as his personal reality.
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Big CatBig Cat

I pee in 100% of the pools I have ever been in

I piss in every pool I've ever been in. Yep. A hundred percent. Yep. All the time. ... Every pool I've ever been in, in my entire life. Every pool I've pissed in.

This is a self-reported fact claim by Big Cat.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

There are more trees in Canada than there are stars in the Milky Way

You know what I learned today? There's more trees in Canada than there are Stars in the Milky Way. Is that true? Damn. Yeah. I went to a museum today.

There are estimated to be 318 billion trees in Canada. The Milky Way is estimated to have 100-400 billion stars. So this is scientifically accurate.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

I have probably walked by at least six serial killers in my lifetime

Number of serial killers walked by. I think it's over three people. Holy shit, six. I like that because then it's like, holy shit.

This is statistically difficult to verify but is likely an exaggeration for comedic effect during the segment.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

Orcas are attacking boats to train their young to hunt, not for revenge

Update on those orca attacks. Turns out the orcas may be using the boats that they're attacking to train the younger orcas, how to hunt. It may not be some sort of retribution situation.

Many marine biologists have indeed suggested the 'play' or 'fad' theory rather than 'vengeance', though the exact motive remains a scientific debate.
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Take Slip·Jun 9, 2023
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Mike McDanielMike McDaniel

I have officially quit vaping cold turkey

The idea of... that being something that people are talking about after a playoff game is annoying enough to provoke me to never do it again. And I've since quit classic McDaniel style cold turkey, just like alcohol.

McDaniel states this as a personal fact; its truth depends on his personal habits.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

There will be a massive tick population this year due to the mild winter

We had a very mild winter. There's a lot of ticks. The winter didn't kill the ticks. There's gonna be a lot of ticks. Tick-borne diseases are no joke. Be careful out there. Do tick checks. Get a buddy, get naked.

The 2023 tick season was indeed predicted to be high due to the mild 2022-2023 winter in the Northeast and Midwest.
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Take Slip·May 1, 2023
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Taylor LewanTaylor Lewan

BPC-157 is a wonder drug for injury recovery with no downsides

BPC-157 is a wonder drug... inflammation, look, pain relief... no downside. It really is one of the best things you can do... I had an ankle sprain, I would literally put it right in my ankle and three days later it was fine.

Medical claims are difficult to verify as having 'no downside', and it is banned by WADA and the NFL for a reason.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

Sloth bears are more vicious than honey badgers

I've been going on a deep dive and rabbit hole on sloth bears. They're the most vicious animal on earth. I think more vicious than a honey badger. They fight tigers and tigers are literally scared of them.

Sloth bears are indeed highly aggressive and known to stand their ground against tigers, though crowning a 'most vicious' animal is subjective.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

The East River is full of prehistoric bison bones dumped by a developer

Dirty Water Don... he's found a bone. He found a jawbone of a steppe bison, which is just a prehistoric, gigantic bison. He found the jawbone in the East River. So that means that it is true. There were tons of bones dump there. It means that they're sniffing in the right place.

While a jawbone was reportedly found, the claim of 'tons' of prehistoric bones dumped there by a specific developer is based on unverified local legend and remains unproven.
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