...doing a little surfin' on Teh Internetz, checking out some stuff on The Google and whatnot, contemplating whether I should go ahead and buy that autographed first edition of Bill Maher's Proper Public Uses for Ladyboobs, Vol I on eBay, or wait for it to come to the local Dollar Store, when all of a sudden BAM!
Purpose of appendix believed found: "Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut. ... [B]efore dense populations in modern times and during epidemics of cholera that affected a whole region, it wasn't as easy to grow back that bacteria and the appendix came in handy."
You've totally rocked my world again, Science.
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