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There's a laser procedure that turns brown eyes blue!

A doctor in Laguna Beach has developed a new laser technique that allows people with brown eyes to turn them permanently blue. How is this possible? Brown eyes are actually blue underneath, but there are cells on top of the blue pigmentation that turn them darker.

The doctor says that after the 20-second procedure, the brown pigments start to fade and your eyes should be blue from then on out. He's been working on the technology for about 10 years and he estimates that it will be available for the public within a few years and cost about $5000.

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Romantic love only lasts about a year. After that, 'attachment love' sets in!

It has often been said that falling in love is one of the best feelings in the world. It can take over a person's life—they become enamored with the other person and everything just seems better because of the love they share. Is there a difference between this initial love and the love that a couple that have been married for 50 years shares?

Italian scientists believe there is. Researchers at the University of Pavia say that a chemical is responsible for the first rush of love. They found that raised levels of protein were to thank for the feelings of euphoria that those in love experience.

The scientists found that these levels went down over time though when they studied couples that were in long-term relationships. Specifically, these levels went down after one year in the relationship. These findings do not mean that the couple is no longer in love but rather that the love is not so acute.

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Krusty the clown was actually supposed to be Homer in disguise!

The Simpsons is more than just a mindless sitcom. Through their run, they have managed to weave in a number of deeper subjects. Perhaps one of the more interesting subjects is one that they didn't have the time to work in.

A recurring theme in The Simpsons is that Bart has a strange relationship with Krusty the Clown. Bart's character is almost a pure anarchist, except for his strange idolization of Krusty the clown. He idolizes him despite all of Krusty's very obvious problem.

Show creator Matt Groening said that they wanted to take that one step further. Krusty was originally Homer in disguise. Both characters look pretty similar. The idea was that Homer couldn't get any respect from his son, except when he dressed as a clown.

They thought it was too complicated of a storyline, so they dropped it, and Krusty became a character on his own. The thematic thread got picked up later, though, when Homer joins Krusts' clown college in the sixth season.

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Greek statues have small penises because the Greeks considered large ones to be gross and comical!

If you’ve ever seen ancient Greek statues, you may wonder about the size of men’s penises back then. If the statues are accurate, ancient Greek men were not well endowed. Are these true representations though and if so, are they true of all ancient Greek men?

While today, men would prefer to have a large penis. This was not the case in ancient Greece. Experts have actually studied ancient Greek genitalia extensively. Back then, in highbrow culture, large penises were actually considered grotesque, comic or both. The Greeks actually desired small, thin penises. Hence, this ideal small representation on their statues.

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A single Lego brick can support 375,000 other bricks before collapsing!

Lego are incredibly strong. A BBC program called More or Less asked Open University's engineering department to find out how many Lego bricks it would take staked on top of each other to destroy the bottom brick.

They used a hydraulic testing machine and they determined that the maximum force that a 2x2 Lego brick can take is 4,240 newtons. Since those 2x2 Lego bricks have a mass of 1.152 grams, it would take a stack of 375,000 bricks to cause the bottom brick to collapse. That would be a stack 3,591 meters (11,781ft) high!

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