Looking at the unpleasant things that people added to food in the past seems shocking to us today, as historic evidence of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wrapped up in the study of mummies, Egyptologists have been mystified about how pharaohs and other revered dead were embalmed so ...

Formaldehyde has undergone quite the image makeover. Best known as the heady, sickly sweet-smelling chemical commonly used to bathe the recently deceased in high school biology labs and funeral homes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People are using embalming fluid to get high, which could lead to dangerous and deadly situations. ALSO READ: Residents push back ...

Embalming fluids preserve the bodies of people who have died, but some are using it for a stronger high.Harrisburg police said they are responding to more calls involving marijuana and cigarettes ...

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It was right around twenty years ago when some dude sitting next to me leaned over and said: “Hey man, that joint we just smoked had formaldehyde in it.” What the hecking f**k! I’m not going to lie, ...