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Did you know it is illegal to be an alcoholic in Sulphur, La.?

Serving size: Always start here, because it’s the amount the manufacturer suggests you eat or drink. Serving sizes can get tricky and might have you multiplying or dividing everything else in the chart. Many bottled drinks are actually two or more servings per bottle, so you’d have to double (or more) the number of calories listed [...]

Nutrients like carbs and fat can be stored in our bodies, but alcohol cannot. Therefore, all other processes stop when our bodies need to metabolize alcohol content. Women’s bodies absorb alcohol into their bloodstreams more quickly than men’s because women possess less dehydrogenase, the enzyme that breaks down alcohol in the stomach. Darker beers are [...]

1.What is the strongest muscle in the human body? A. tongue B. glutes C. heart D. bicep . 2.What is the best selling album of all time? A. Eagles-Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 B. The Beatles-The Beatles C. Pink Floyd-The Wall D. Taylor Swift-Fearless . 3.What animal is immune to all known diseases? A. horse B. [...]

• The candle pass is the most common wedding ceremony tradition. The bride-to-be’s sisters pass a candle, covered at the base with flowers. The sisters each say something about the bride-to-be, then finally pass the candle to the engaged sister to blow out. This ceremony announces the engagement to the chapter as well as celebrates [...]

Carl Maddox served as athletic director for LSU from 1968 until 1978. He even helped lead the Tigers to the 1958 national football championship as assistant coach, according to Mississippi State University obituaries. Dr. Charles E. Coates, a chemistry professor, was LSU’s first football coach. Coates lost the only game he ever coached (34-0 to [...]

Former Democratic Governor Edwin Edwards described being caught in bed with “a live boy or a dead girl” as the only ways to ruin a political career. Though never caught in bed with either, Edwards went to prison in 2002 for extortion. Maybe “a live boy or a dead girl” aren’t the only two things [...]

The Athletic Department raked out an average of $62,000 per month earlier this year to pay for Tiger Stadium’s utility bills from January through July. The sum of the stadium’s utility costs during that six-month stretch: $437,487. The University could have purchased 36 new Smart cars with that amount of money and still have more [...]

Compiled by Jordan DeFrank In 1960, Dr. George Mickey, dean of the Graduate School, was accused of murdering a UNO professor, Margaret McMillan, and dumping her body off River Road just outside campus. Mickey was cleared and released because of “tampered evidence,” despite McMillan’s bloodstains and fingerprints in Mickey’s car, as well as a faulty [...]

Students spend an average of $3 billion a year on movies, DVDs and entertainment. Students spend $11 billion a year on snacks and beverages to eat and drink while watching movies. Of that $11 billion, $10.5 billion is beer. More than one-third of American women consider money more important than good sex to the success [...]