{"id":648,"date":"2009-12-10T22:52:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T04:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=648"},"modified":"2019-06-29T09:21:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T14:21:47","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-december-10-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For December 10, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Explosive Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A chemistry student in Ukraine was found dead by his parents after half his head was blow off by a strange mixture of chewing gum and explosives. The disfigured remains of the 25-year-old student were discovered at his home in the city of Konotop in northern Ukrainian. Registered at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, the young man was working at his computer late on Saturday night when the apparent explosion occurred. A loud pop had been heard from the man\u2019s room. When his parents entered the bedroom, they discovered his lifeless body with the lower part of the young man\u2019s head having been blown off. A post mortem procedure revealed that the student had been chewing gum which contained an unidentified chemical substance. The young man is believed to have developed the strange habit of dipping his chewing gum into citric acid. Police investigators discovered on the premises both packets of citric acid and a similar-looking chemical, understood to be some type of explosive substance on a nearby table. Police authorities now believe that the chemistry student simply mixed the two packets and chewed on a piece of gum which had been unknowingly covered with the explosive.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: WCJB.Co.UK<\/p>\n<p>Is it sad that after reading this I am most fascinated that someone would dip chewing gum in citric acid? I want to know how that improves the gum chewing experience. Oh, the mysteries of life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Explosive Yet Truly Morbid Fact! A chemistry student in Ukraine was found dead by his parents after half his head was blow off by a strange mixture of chewing gum and explosives. The disfigured remains of the 25-year-old student were discovered at his home in the city of Konotop in northern Ukrainian. Registered at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7326,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/7326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}