Welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home.

My name is Marcus Paff, and of course I'm bringing you some of the more interesting,

intriguing, and downright cool stories from around the globe.

Up first, a man who let snakes bite him 202 times.

Yes, he let them do it, we'll tell you why.

Also, chimpanzees filmed drumming in the wild. We've got the implications.

And what's in a name? Well, new research says it could possibly shape your face over time.

All that and more coming up on cool stuff.

This first story comes to us from Science News and author Megan Rosen.

Tim Freed remembers his worst snake bites in

screaming detail. The first was from an Egyptian cobra, the second an hour later from a monocled cobra.

Both bites occurred at his home in Wisconsin. Both were from highly venomous snakes. Neither bite

was an accident. Fried let the

cobras bite him on purpose. Now he's logged 202 snake bites in total. For Freed, quote,

it always burns and it's always, always painful, end quote. After the back-to-back

cobra bites, Fried had to be airlifted to the hospital and spent four days in a coma.

Was it a mistake? He asked? Yes. Was it stupid? Yes. But he's in it for the science.

For nearly 20 years, Freed has self-immunized against venom from some of the world's deadliest snakes.

The process involved milking venom from snakes and then injecting

tiny, followed by increasingly larger doses into his body. Think the Princess Bride, for Jacob

Glenville, president and CEO of the biotech company Centivax. In the movie, Wesley built up immunity

to the poisonous and fictional Iocaine powder by gradually exposing himself to it over time.

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