They don't call jawbreakers "jawbreakers" for nothing, as one 19-year-old college student painfully learned when she tried to bite down on the large candy ball (known as a gobstopper in Britain).
"Has anyone else ever wondered if a jawbreaker can actually break your jaw?" Javeria Wasim asked on a TikTok video, her mouth wired shut after an emergency hospital visit.
"Spoiler alert: it can and it did".
Wasim and her friend decided to buy jawbreakers while out shopping in Toronto, Canada last month. Wasim says she challenged herself to bite through the 'giant' three-inch diameter sweet in a rush to reach the hidden bubblegum tucked into the candy's center. But rather than bite the large sphere in half, she only managed to make a dent in the jawbreaker's surface.
Meanwhile, she chipped a tooth, loosened another, and fractured her lower jaw bone in two places. Ouch!
Wasim is now advising others to take their time reaching the jawbreaker's centerpiece. "It's better to take the six weeks to get through to it than having six weeks suffering the consequences".
Liverpool enter 2025 top of the Premier League, stretching their lead to eight points as they thrashed an abject West Ham United 5-0.
In fact, a first-half masterclass had left a desperately passive Hammers well beaten.
Luis Diaz gave them the lead with a powerful finish on the half-hour mark. Cody Gakpo was then the beneficiary of Mohamed Salah's brilliant footwork to add a second after 40 minutes, before the Egyptian inevitably got in on the act himself with a low drive on the stroke of half-time for his 20th goal of a superb season.
The game already belonged to the Reds but they claimed two more goals after the break. Trent Alexander-Arnold took a pass from Ryan Gravenberch with time to wait and look up, the lack of pressure from the West Ham players almost a public snub, before spanking a deflected shot past their goalkeeper in the 54th minute. And thirty minutes afterward, Diogo Jota emerged as a substitute and swept a first-time shot into the net from a Mo Salah pass.










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