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The List: New rumored sources of HGH

Everyone’s abuzz about deer antlers. What’s the next level of unlikely sources of human growth hormone?

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What wacky sources will next be rumored to contain HGH? Here’s the short list:

- Fresca

- The fat that settles to the bottom of Dinty Moore Beef Stew

- Any surface in Sylvester Stallone’s house

- Everything mentioned in “The 12 Days of Christmas”

- The felt on tennis balls

- Promotional glossies of Yaphet Kotto

- The magnet clipped to the side of the Explorabook

- Silica packets

- Brian Dennehy

- VHS copies of Marvin’s Room

- Discarded Eddie Murphy prosthetics

- 7-11 taquitos

- Jay-Z’s smart phone (must be eaten whole)

- Protective stickers peeled off handheld Konami games

- Hangin’ out with Fred McGriff

(Jon Bois and Andrew Sharp co-wrote this episode of The List.)

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