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If you were out watching Twilight this past weekend, here's the less-romantic but still-pretty-neat scoop on drinking blood.

A scientists performed an analysis that suggests that, if vampires were real, they would have quickly vanquished the human population. He appears not to have considered the possibility that we ARE ALL UNDEAD, but don't yet know it.

Here's the worst thing about vampires: they're really, well, boring. We're not sure which is stranger: the people who say they do drink other people's blood, or the ones who say they're vampires even though they don't.

If you are desperate for a creature to drink your blood, though, there are plenty who would be willing. Of course, feeding on blood is not as easy as it might seem.

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