The American Psychiatric Association writes and maintains the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM for sure. It's the go-to book that every mental health professional refers to when diagnosing a mental illness. 

They're planning on releasing the 5th edition of the DSM next year, and one of the changes they're proposing is to expand the list of recognized symptoms for drug and alcohol addiction. 

For example, if you often drink more than you intend and crave alcohol, you will be considered a mild addict. Under DSM-4, you needed to have more serious symptoms like missing your duties, being arrested or driving while drunk before you were diagnosed as an addict.

The result will be that an estimated 20 million people will be considered addicts, who now are just unhealthy users rather than abusers. They estimate that up to 40% of college students would fall under this definition!

This decision is drawing fire because it has huge implications beyond the simple diagnosis. For one, the DSM is what insurance companies use to decide what treatments they pay. If so many people are considered addicts, then health care costs could rise dramatically. 

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The official from Texas explained that the statute refers to which animals are considered game animals, a specific list of animals that are legal to hunt. The man's fear is that because Bigfoot wasn't included on the list, he couldn't kill it.

Texas responded by saying that the state only defines non-game animals, as animals that are native to Texas and that are not protected. If there's an animal that is not native to Texas and it's not an endangered species, then it's fair game.

This means that because Bigfoot is not officially recognized as an endangered species, you could theoretically kill it while in Texas with no repercussions. Let us know in the comments if you've ever hunted and killed Bigfoot!

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Still, sugary soft drink is the #1 source of calories in the average American diet. Think about it. It means that if you're the average person, you get more calories from drinking Coke or Kool-Aid than you do from pizza, hamburgers, French fries and everything else. 

The holy grail is, of course, finding an all-natural sweetener that has no calories. Many people are still apprehensive of the stuff used to give diet sodas their flavor. Until then, soda companies fight the downward trend by adding new brands, flavors and other products like bottled water.

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Most of these slaves are in bonded labor (or debt bondage), a whopping 18.1 million. Another 7.6 million slaves are in forced labor, like the kind we hear about in Congo with diamond mining. At least 2.7 million slaves are also trafficked. 

Sex trafficking is among the most common forms of slavery. Victims are usually either sold by their family members living in poverty, or deceived with a job or other offer. Typical schemes are ones like being offered the opportunity to go to America and work at a fast food chain like In-N-Out. 

There is a handful of other tactics used to deceive these people, such as fraud, threats, marriage offers, or even outright abduction. When the scheme is revealed, these women are repeatedly gang raped and drugged into submission. Some children as young as three are forced into the trade. 

Unlike many global issues, however, this isn't one that can be written off as a problem of underdeveloped countries. Every year, anywhere between 800,000 and 1.8 million people are trafficked into the United States. It's something that happens inside the US borders in plain sight, in our own backyards. 80% of these are women, and 50% are children. 

Furthermore, because slavery is so prevalent in manual labor, nearly every product purchased here in America is produced in some way due to slaves. Many products that we use everyday are made in part thanks to slavery. There's a very well put together survey that can tell you about how many slaves are supporting your life. It can be found at http://slaveryfootprint.org. 

If you want to know more specifically about human trafficking, you can check out this website: http://www.callandresponse.com/ 

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A survey taken of a thousand recently deceased claimed that the average left handed person died nine years sooner than the right handed counterpart. While the average age of death for righties was 75, the average age of death for lefties was apparently 66. 

Many were quick to question this, because in other similar experiments there was either a much smaller difference in the age of death or no notable difference at all. In addition, nine years is a larger age gap than even the gap between smokers' and non-smokers' projected lifespans. 

A study of right and left handed cricket players showed only a two year gap, while a study of right and left handed baseball players showed only an eight month gap. Those who dispute the nine-year gap argue that if it were so, life insurance companies would have caught on much sooner and would be slower to insure lefties. 

A 1992 article in the Atlantic notes that lefties have higher frequencies of depression, substance abuse, bed wetting, suicide and attempted suicide, low birth weight, sleeping disorders, and autoimmune diseases. This is argued as an explanation for why they live shorter lifespans. 

Yet another explanation is that there's simply a generational gap between lefties and righties. That is, that some of the older generation of lefties was forced to become right-handed. It wasn't until later generations that people were free to be left- or right-handed.

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Do you want to find a guy that wears a Walrus stache with pride? You can do that. Horseshoe? Handlebar? Dirty Sanchez? They're all there.

Specifically tailored dating sites are out there for you to find them if you want to find a very specific kind of love. Check out the source to read more about Stache Passions and other sites like:

• The Ugly Bug Ball. Their motto? "it's what's on the inside that counts."
• FarmersOnly.com Need I say more? 
• Meet-an-Inmate. You can become pen pals with an incarcerated individual 
• The Atlasphere. For people who are fans of and follow Ayn Rand's philosophy in life.

There's a few more strange and unique dating sites at the source, so check it out here. 

If you were to set up a dating site like these, what would be the twist you would put in it?

One of the things that made it the most successful Shakespeare movie ever at the time was that it was the first one to use actors that were close to the age of the original play's characters. Olivia Hussey was only 15 at the time!

When the movie premiered in London, Hussey was not allowed to attend, because the movie featured a nude actress… herself! The director had to get special permission to film her nude, but she still had to skip on the premiere. 

Another interesting fact, the movie was originally rated G in the United States, but because of the nudity it was re-rated, to the incredibly more restricting PG rating. 

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Examples of early royal connections are a shield carved into Rothesay Castle and some coins dating back to as early as 1466. Scottish mythology, as well as having magical tales of unicorns, is full of mysterious and fascinating creatures. 

One you may have heard of is the Loch Ness monster. Since the 5th century the story of a giant ‘water beast’ that has dragged many a fisherman to their death. 

Lesser known folklore includes the tale of Tam O'Shanter, which was immortalised by poet Robert Burns in the 1800s. 

The story tells of witches and ghosts and perfectly captures the essence of being curled up around the fire on a windy night in the highlands, listening to a scary story.

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Hamdi was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. As per Islamic tradition, Hamid was washed and prepared for burial. The day of the funeral, with his entire group of family and friends desperately mourning the sudden loss of Hamid, a doctor approached his body to sign the death certificate. 

The doctor found Hamid to still be warm and slightly breathing and revived him, at which point his mother fainted upon seeing him! Hamid being alive surprised his guests so much that they turned the funeral into a party celebrating his life!

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Discovery Island was a place where you could go and observe wildlife. In fact it was originally called Treasure Island, but was renamed when it was recognized as a zoological park.

Most of the animals were relocated to Animal Kingdom, and an area in that new park was renamed Discovery Island. The original island was closed down in 1999,

This island is the reason there are stories of Disney killing vultures. Earlier, some people claimed Disney intentionally killed black vultures because they were predators to the other species in the island.

 Despite that it was considered a major bird sanctuary, including one of the largest populations of breeding Scarlet Ibis. Even the last Dusky Seaside Sparrow died there in 1987. 

In 2009 a group of young adventurers went to the island and found it almost untouched for the past decade. Their story is pretty interesting, so you should check it out here.

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• You must be male
• You can't wear underwear
• You can't be drugged or incapacitated
• The Ferret can't be drugged or incapacitated
• Ferrets must have a full set of teeth

That's it. You tie the ankles of the trousers and place two ferrets inside, and fasten your belt. You stand in front of the judges as long as you can. What makes you good at it? Not a whole lot… just an ability to 'have your tool bitten and not care.' The world record is 5 hours and 30 minutes!

A female version of the sport - ferret busting, was attempted by putting ferrets inside a woman's blouse. It proved unsuccessful.

To learn more about this strange sport, including its origins, go here. 

Why would a man create his own jungle? Back in 1979 extreme floods pushed thousands of snakes up onto the sandbar near Payeng, all of which eventually died from the heat.

He says when he saw the dead reptiles he wept at the unneeded massive loss of life. Had there been trees there, the snakes would have survived, thus Payeng set about creating his own sprawling jungle composed of birds, deer, rhinos, tigers, and even elephants for which he has become world renowned. 

If you were able to create your own ecosystem, what would you have in it?

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The star is about 3.0 billion kilometers in diameter, and if placed in the center of our Solar System, VY Canis Majoris’s surface would extend passed the orbit of Saturn!

VY Canis Majoris was first recorded by Jerome Lalande in 1801, and was originally thought to consist of multiple stars. However, as observation technology improved, scientists were able to determine in 1957 that it was in fact one star without a companion. 

Professor Roberta Humphreys was able to establish that the star was so large it would take more than 8.5 hours for light to travel around the star; compared to the 14.5 seconds it would take to travel around our Sun! 

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The difference is mostly due to the higher levels of melanin in the skin, hair, and eyes of males. Men also tend to have redder skin because of their greater blood volume. The reverse is also true. 

Women tend to have blonder hair and green or blue eyes and lighter skin. Both of these are a result in lower levels of melanin. 

While the reason originates from melanin differences, scientists are not sure exactly why men and women have different levels. However, they have noted that the difference in skin color tends to be more pronounced in populations that are neither very light nor very dark skinned. 

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You might be thinking that we move everything by remote control, because the brain is what controls everything. But the fingers are special because of their lack of muscle.

Fingers are moved by tendons, pulled by muscles in the forearm. That's why if you flex your fingers, you can feel the muscles in your forearm. You could say that we don't directly control our fingers at all. 

The muscles in the forearm and palm are connected to the finger bones by smooth, flexible strings called tendons. The way our finger joints bend is by the muscles pulling on these tendons. 

This is partly why many people can't bend their pinkies all the way without also bending their ring fingers. These muscles operate somewhat like strings on a marionette. 

The total muscle count involved is 17 in the palm of the hand and 18 in the forearm. It's pretty interesting that the parts of our body that we use so frequently are completely devoid of muscles. 

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