DOUCHE OF THE DAY: Woman Tattoos Man’s Name on Face After One Date – They’re both douches

The internet is buzzing with pictures of a Russian woman who allegedly let her new boyfriend tattoo his name across her face only one day after their first date. According to British tabloid The Sun, Lesya allowed her beau, Rouslan Toumaniantz, to ink “Ruslan” across both her cheeks in Gothic letters, 5 inches tall. The pair reportedly met in an online chatroom and now are engaged. “It’s a symbol of our eternal devotion. I’d like him to tattoo every inch of my body,” Lesya said, according to Gawker. This is not the first time Toumaniantz’s talents have made headlines. Remember when that 18 year old girl tattooed 56 stars on her face? That was done by the same Rouslan Toumaniantz too. [KTLA]

Mixing Diet Soda with Alcohol May Get You Drunk Faster

Researchers gave college students vodka drinks with regular soda and with diet soda, and the diet soda group got more intoxicated, faster – about 20%  more intoxicated than those who mixed regular soda with liquor, according to research published Tuesday in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. Sugar in your mixed drink actually slows down the effects of alcohol, researchers say. Why do people get more intoxicated when they go for diet instead of regular soda with their booze? It has to do with digestion. The diet soda mixture passes quickly through the stomach, putting alcohol into our bloodstream faster. That’s not the case with regular soda and liquor. Experts say the stomach treats this combination as if it’s food. Digestion slows everything down, delaying the release of alcohol into our system, and spreading it out over a longer period of time. [KTLA] 

Majority Of Foodborne Illness Caused By Green Vegetables

Leafy Greens Liz Burke, via Wikimedia

According to a new study by the CDC, the greatest number of foodborne illnesses in the U.S. are not caused by raw cookie dough or undercooked meat or questionable shellfish, but by leafy green vegetables. Of the 9.6 million cases of food-borne illness reported each year, 51 percent are caused by contaminated plants; leafy greens alone contribute 23 percent of the total, more than any other commodity. All the meat and poultry commodities combined--beef, game, pork, and poultry--were responsible for 22 percent of illness, and dairy carried 17 percent. Many of the contaminants lurking on leafy greens are noroviruses--the bugs that cause what most of us call the "stomach flu"--deposited by food handlers. But before you throw caution to the wind and sit down with a big bowl of raw cookie dough and your favorite chicken tartare, beware: tainted greens may make you sick, but poultry is still more likely to kill you. [PopSci]

Postal Service To Cut Saturday Mail Delivery To Save $2 Billion Per Year

Saturday mail may soon go the way of the Pony Express and penny postcards. The Postal Service said Wednesday that it plans to cut back to five-day-a-week deliveries for everything except packages to stem its financial losses in a world radically re-ordered by the Internet. The Postal Service, which suffered a $15.9 billion loss in the past budget year, said it expected to save $2 billion annually with the Saturday cutback. Mail such as letters and magazines would be affected. Delivery of packages of all sizes would continue six days a week. [Huffington Post]