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When a delicate object crashes onto the floor, most people expect it to shatter into several pieces. What they might not know, however, is that the sizes of those fragments—whether from a broken plate ...

Guy Fieri was rushed to emergency surgery after missing a set of steps and tearing his quad muscle in half. During an interview with Fox News Digital, the Food Network star explained that he is ...