And a couple I took directly from Pat's Papers...

On on mob nicknames:

http://www.patspapers.com/story_stack/item/how_one_gets_a_name_like_papa_smurf/

On on using fecal transplants in medicine, which is the grossest development in medicine since the use of maggots to clean wounds:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-fecal-transplant-20130117,0,815232.story