A man in Mexico was hospitalised after taking Viagra for bulls. The man got an erection that lasted three days after he ingested the drug, which is used for cattle-breeding purposes. He told doctors he took the pills because he planned to have a successful sexual congress with a 30-year-old woman.
Star Wars fan builds stormtrooper costume and shoots at it
A Star Wars fan has made his own bulletproof stormtrooper suit and then tested it out by taking it to his local firing range and shooting at it. Nils Rasmusson, from Utah, said of his creation: “It actually did its job, really well, of stopping all the bullets.” It had taken him around nine months and five 3D printers to create the suit.
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