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Equal parts strange and terrifying: these are some of the many monsters that have haunted Greek mythology since antiquity.

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You’ve been breathing wrong, using the bathroom wrong, and even finding a way to sweat wrong. Luckily, we’re here to help.

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Grody was initially spelled groaty, in the mid-1960s, and it’s basically used to describe something that’s slovenly, dirty, ...