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Monday, November 7, 2011

Some MLB players PEE on their hands to improve their grip!

 Some MLB players PEE on their hands to improve their grip!
Moises Alou and Jorge Posada have something in common. Despite the fact that most other players wear gloves to play baseball, they do not. This might be disadvantage, because it reduces the amount of grip that they can put on a bat or ball. 

The way they manage to NOT wear gloves is very simple: they pee on their hands to improve their grips. While it might seem strange, it's hard to argue against Moises Alou, he's hit over 300 home runs and has been selected an All-Star six times in his 17 year career. However, Slate researched the issue and found that if anything, peeing on your hands might actually soften your hands. Who's right? Would you pee on yourself to improve performance? Tell us in the comments!

Kim Kardashian's wedding cost $138,888 a day!




After only 72 days of marriage, socialite and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian, and NBA player Kris Humphries filed for divorce. This comes to a shock to those who watched their fairytale wedding special on E! only three weeks ago. 
She filed for divorce on Hallowen, citing "irreconcileable differences." The prenup they signed will ensure that neither pays spousal support to the other. This is only a few days after she told PEOPLE magazine that she used to be upset about rumors between them and that those rumors would always be around. According to some sources, the pressure of having so many reality show cameras around was too much for the young marriage.

The couple had been dating only 6 months before the wedding and the majority of their relationship was caught on tape for E!'s Keeping Up With the Kardashians

Kim's ring cost an estimated $2 Million and her wedding an estimated $10 Million. If you do the math, Kim's marriage bliss cost $138,888 per day! 

I guess Kris Humphries just couldn't keep up with those Kardashians. 

The Power Rangers were banned in New Zealand until 2011, despite the fact that the show is filmed there!




In 1994 the New Zealand Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) decided to uphold a number of complaints from concerned parents about the levels of violence in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers show. The complaints said that the show taught that violence was the best way to resolve conflict and parents feared that little kids would have increased levels of aggression as a result of watching the show. 
When the BSA made its decision, the show was all but cancelled by the TV station, in the middle of the show's second season. For years the show was hard to find on DVD and video. The funny twist in this is that starting with the later seasons, like "Power Rangers: Mystic Force" and "Power Rangers: Jungle Fury," the show was actually filmed ON New Zealand. The show remained missing from TV sets in the island-country until the release of the 2011 show "Power Rangers Samurai."