NBC’s Fear Factor Not Sure if it Actually Wants To Make Contestants Drink Donkey Semen »

Tom Brokaw (and NBC News) doesn’t want his likeness to be associated with Mitt Romney in a political ad. Fine. But they’re cool with donkey semen and urine chasers.

TMZ reports that the stunt, which was shot last summer, involved teams drinking a full glass of donkey spunk with a glass of urine as a chaser. NBC execs held multiple powwows leading up to the air date before eventually giving Fear Factor producers the go ahead.
 
So if you’re tired of being disgusted by Keeping Up With the Kardashians and would like to be grossed out by something else, you can treat yourself to Fear Factor this Monday evening.

“You actually have cases of people being diagnosed with brain tumors only to find out what they actually have is a tapeworm living in their brain,” she says. “And what really astonished me is that tapeworms, in the brain, are the leading cause of epilepsy worldwide.”

- Amy Stewart, talking about the pork tapeworm in a discussion with NPR about her new book, Wicked Bugs.

If there were ever such a way to get me to not eat bacon, this is clearly it. 

Get grossed out by reading the rest of this article at NPR.