American singer-songwriter and actress Teyana Taylor attends the London premiere for the movie “One Battle After Another” in London on September 16, 2025. (Photo by Katie Collins/Reuters)

Protesters practice using slings as they block a road in support of former President Evo Morales in the face of an investigation opened against him for the alleged abuse of a minor while in office, in Parotani, Bolivia, Thursday, October 31, 2024. (Photo by Juan Karita/AP Photo)

During a jungle survival program February 20, 2013 taught by Royal Thai Special Forces in Sannapit, Thailand, U.S. Marines learned to catch cobras and drink their fresh blood, not to mention eat forest insects and pull the heads off of chicken. The training was part of Operation Cobra Gold 13, the 32nd edition of international military exercises hosted by the Thai. According to a U.S. Marines press release, Cobra Gold is the largest exercise of its kind in Asia and incorporates troops from five other nations in addition to the U.S. and Thailand. The Daily Mail reports that the Marines were invited to experience the local custom of drinking cobra blood after being taught to catch and kill cobras in the wild. As CNN notes, Cobra blood is believed to be a panacea and aphrodiasic in parts of Southeast Asia. In Jakarta, vendors can earn over $100 a night selling shots of cobra blood mixed with liquor. (Photo by Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/AFP Photo)

Chris “Birdman” Andersen poses for Getty Images photographer Mike Ehrmann during the Miami Heat's Media Day at AmericanAirlines Arena, on September 30, 2013. (Photo by Gary Coronado/The Palm Beach Post)

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German Oliver Struempfl competes to set a new world record in carrying one liter beer mugs over a distance of 40 m (131 ft 3 in) in Abensberg September 7, 2014. Struempfl carried 27 mugs over 40 meters to set a new record for the Guinness book of records. (Photo by Michael Dalder/Reuters)

TV host/blogger Louise Roe attends The Weinstein Company's Academy Awards viewing and after party in partnership with Grey Goose at TAO Los Angeles at TAO Hollywood on February 26, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rachel Murray/Getty Images for The Weinstein Company)

A Harlequin Great Dane named H and a Chihuahua named Boo during a photo call for the launch of this year's Crufts, at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham, United Kingdom on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (Photo by Jacob King/PA Images via Getty Images)

In this April 18, 2019 photo, tattoo artist Lalo Calva inks a tattoo on client Adrian Alonso Rodriguez, a journalist, announcer and dubbing artist, at the Corona Tattoo parlor in Mexico City. Not only inks and techniques have changed in Mexico over the years, but tattoos themselves have evolved from stigmatized symbols of gangs, violence and poverty to an art form. (Photo by Marco Ugarte/AP Photo)