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Japanese pole vaulter Hiroki Ogita has described his bewilderment after reports his penis had prevented him from progressing in the Rio Olympics went viral. A video of the athlete hitting the bar with what looked to some like his penis under his shorts quickly spread online. His leg had already made contact with the bar but his arm finished the job. “I never expected the foreign media to take me down like this,” the 28-year-old athlete tweeted. “It’s one thing if it was true, but I have to say I’m pretty devastated that they’d go so far to make something…

Japanese pole vaulter Hiroki Ogita has described his bewilderment after reports his penis had prevented him from progressing in the Rio Olympics went viral. A video of the athlete hitting the bar with what looked to some like his penis under his shorts quickly spread online. His leg had already made contact with the bar but his arm finished the job. “I never expected the foreign media to take me down like this,” the 28-year-old athlete tweeted. “It’s one thing if it was true, but I have to say I’m pretty devastated that they’d go so far to make something…

Chewing sticks have been hailed by medical experts as still necessary for healthy teeth. Though there has been tremendous technology to the manufacturing of toothbrushes, many still patronise chewing sticks in Ghana. Experts even advise toothpaste  can be added to chewing sticks for strong teeth. Watch below a report on the benefits of chewing sticks:

Spend hours wondering if your crush likes you or not? You can stop that now! We laid out 10 signs your crush likes you, so kiss the uncertainty goodbye. To all who say, “It’s easy figuring men out,” they have obviously never had a problem with them. Well, good thing I dedicated my entire youth to trying to figure out the male species and the signs they give away. Like many other women, I spend countless hours replaying conversations, figuring out the signs your crush likes you, or checking my phone for incoming texts. Then picking apart every encounter I…

Drinking from a water bottle could expose you to hundreds of thousands of moisture-loving bacteria and is potentially worse than licking your toilet seat or your pet’s food bowl. An investigation into the hygiene of reusable water bottles found fitness fanatics trying to stay hydrated during a workout could be making themselves sick. The Treadmill Reviews website asked EmLab P&K to test 12 water bottles which had been used by an athlete for a week without being washed. ‘Based on the 12 water bottles we tested, we found that reusable drinking containers may be crawling with an alarming number of…

New research seems to prove the theory that brainy people spend more time lazing around than their active counterparts. Findings from a US-based study seem to support the idea that people with a high IQ get bored less easily, leading them to spend more time engaged in thought. And active people may be more physical as they need to stimulate their minds with external activities, either to escape their thoughts or because they get bored quickly. Researchers from the Florida Gulf Coast University gave a classic test – dating back three decades – to a group of students. The ‘need…

From a dreamy honeymoon and greater life satisfaction, to more practical tax benefits, there are lots of advantages of tying the knot. Now researchers have discovered another surprising benefit of marriage – happy couples drink less alcohol than their single peers. They found those who were married tended to drink alcohol less frequently while health benefit was also seen for men who were cohabiting with partners. As well as drinking less frequently, marriage causes couples to cut down on binge drinking – with the exception of some married men, who are bigger binge drinkers than males cohabiting with a partner.…

A new debate has been raging – who has the better orgasms, men or women? Many women have been left astounded by how quickly their partner can climax during sex. Yet men often marvel that women can orgasm multiple times. It’s widely known that women are more likely to struggle to achieve this heightened pleasure. But for those who do reach climax, who gets the bigger thrill? A video from Canadian-based YouTube channel ASAPScience tries to answer this quandary by explaining what the differences between the male and female orgasm are. On average, a woman’s orgasm lasts for 20 seconds…

You might expect love to hurt, but for one lovesick Dutch man in China it resulted in a hospital trip for exhaustion. Alexander Pieter Cirk, 41, recently flew from Holland to Hunan province in the hope of meeting his online girlfriend, a Chinese woman known only as Zhang. But he ended up spending 10 days waiting at Changsha airport, after she failed to show up. And he has won little sympathy in China. Mr Cirk told Chinese media that he met Ms Zhang, 26, in an app two months ago and romance blossomed. He decided to fly to visit her,…

The Swedish government is launching a major study into the sex lives of the country’s citizens after reports emerged that lovemaking has waned. Public Health Minister Gabriel Wikstrom notes that the last thorough study of Swedes’ sex habits was 20 years ago. Since then, reports in tabloid newspapers have pointed to a decrease in sexual activity. In an opinion piece in newspaper Dagens Nyheter on Friday, Wikstrom wrote that ‘it’s important to investigate whether that is the case and if so what the reason is.’ If stress and other health issues are affecting Swedes’ sex lives, he says, ‘that is…