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This link will lead you to a Youtube video featured by "Strange Addictions" on TLC. Essentially, a 19-year-old girl named Brea is addicted to eating sand. She believes that it tastes good on top of all different kinds of foods. Brea is hooked with the crunchy texture, and thinks that sand is mouthwatering. She was first introduced to this addiction when she accidently got sand in her mouth when she was younger. She is so hooked on sand that there are pieces of sand in her mouth even when she wakes up.
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This chart displays what a patient suffering from pica disorder happened to digest. In total, there were an astonishing amount of 1,446 non-food items within this patient's stomach. The items that he ate includes:
-453 nails
-148 seeds
-115 hair pins
-85 small stones
-63 buttons
-42 screws
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Did you get it? This side note and image of Pikachu, from the show Pokemon, featured on Cartoon Network is pretty funny. Why? Pikachu usually says "pika-chu" on a daily basis because it is his name. His owner/trainer, Ash, carries around Pokeballs, in which it is usually made out of plastic. Because in this particular image Pikachu is eating the nonfood item, the creator of this pun decided it would be funny if the "pika" in Pikachu was spelt "pica" instead, because of the eating disorder that is called pica. Overall, this image is pretty witty, and clever.