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Most people’s fundraising experience ends at running a race for charity or selling candy for a good cause—but if you really want to go big with your efforts, you need to think outside of the box. Here are a few of the weirdest charity stunts ever performe

Jill Harness
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We know you’re just itching to know all about some of history’s nastiest viruses and the horrifying diseases they cause in humans.

Jessica Bloustein Marshall
Gout can cause a most hellish pain.

Humanity spent the last hundred years virtually eradicating some of the planet’s most unpleasant diseases. But some of them have started showing up again.

Kathy Benjamin