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Many Americans grew up with the idea their appendix is an unnecessary organ, made obsolete by evolution. But in the last 20 years or so, scientists have come to believe the appendix serves a purpose, ...

After two weeks off the air, Stephen Colbert returned to “The Late Show” stage, where he was quick to tell the full story of his ruptured appendix. Colbert revealed Monday night that he woke up in ...

The late night host recalled how he was "shaking like a Polaroid picture" after his appendix had (unbeknownst to him) burst, likened his surgery to "John Wick 5" and joked that "appendicitis is the ...