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fromBuzzFeed
1 week ago

Parents Are Sharing The Moments They Realised They'd 'Raised An Idiot' And I'm Chuckling To Myself

Children's risky interactions with magnets, knives, and firearms produced severe injuries, required medical and police intervention, and caused lasting physical damage.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Surgeons remove high-power magnets from New Zealand teenager's intestines

A 13-year-old boy in New Zealand swallowed up to 100 high-power magnets he bought online, forcing surgeons to remove tissue from his intestines, doctors said on Friday. After suffering four days of abdominal pain, the unnamed teen was taken to Tauranga hospital in the North Island. He disclosed ingesting approximately 80 to 100 5x2mm high-power (neodymium) magnets about one week prior, said a report by hospital doctors in the New Zealand Medical Journal.
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