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When your cat isn’t chilling out in the bathroom sink or mounting an attack, you might find them leisurely snacking on plastic. Bags, straws, milk jugs, blinds, and other inedible chew objects are attractive to cats, who don’t realize the potential harm of ingesting them.
So why do cats enjoy munching on plastic?
The most common and benign reason is that cats find it somewhat tasty. Plastic shopping bags, for example, are often made with cornstarch or gelatin to make them more biodegradable which also gives them some flavor. If the bag was used for groceries, it may also harbor the scent of whatever was previously inside it.
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Regardless of whether you can believe it s not butter, you may wonder what margarine is exactly. It s creamy, yellow, and spreadable just like real butter, but there are major differences between the two products the biggest being their ingredients.
Butter is a byproduct of milk, typically from cows. Churning the cream skimmed from milk creates a rich, semi-solid emulsion that can be used as a fat in baking and cooking or as a condiment. Though embraced by cuisines around the world, butter has become a topic of health debates. While it is a good source of calcium and vitamins, butter is also high in saturated fat, which has been shown to raise cholesterol.
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Before sports referees donned the zebra stripes we know so well today, many showed up to games in some variation of this spiffy ensemble: white dress shirt and slacks, black bow tie, and white flat cap.
The uniform made officials seem official, but it wasn’t quite distinct enough to set them apart from the players during fast-paced gameplay. When one of the teams was also wearing white, things could get confusing. An Eastern Michigan University (EMU) student named Lloyd W. Olds experienced this issue firsthand while officiating high school basketball games in 1914. “The referee often looked very much like a player, so the lads often threw the ball to me or bounced it off my head,” he later recalled.
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Though finding a hair in your food can kill your appetite, eating it probably won’t kill you. In fact, it likely won’t affect your health at all.
As
Popular Scienceexplains, hair mostly comprises keratin, a protein that poses no threat when eaten. And while it is technically possible that there’s
Staphylococcus aureusbacteria clinging to the hair, it’s probably not enough to cause any gastrointestinal distress. If the hair snuck into your food before it got cooked at a high temperature, chances of illness are even slimmer. “Ingesting a hair or two … will likely not be problematic and will just pass right through you,” Adam Friedman, a dermatology professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, told VICE.