In this year's Ig Nobels a Cornell University graduate student who allowed honeybees sting him in 25 places and a team of scientists who came to a conclusion that it's possible for a man to father 888 children were honored. They were among the winners of Ig Nobels, which honors humorous scientific achievement.

According to Michael Smith estimation he was stung around 200 times at the time of his 2012 honeybee study. He concluded that the nostril, the upper lip and the male sex organ are the three most painful places to get stung. He said that a sting to the nostril was so painful; it was like a whole body experience.

The others honored on Thursday night at the 25th annual ceremony at Harvard University included a trio of linguists who found that almost every language in the world uses the word ‘huh’ for clarification in a conversation and researchers who discovered that corporate CEOs take less professional risk if directly affected by natural disasters as children.

Real Nobel laureates gave away the prizes. Every winner received a cash award of a Zimbabwean 10 trillion-dollar bill, which is equal to couple of the US dollars.

The Ig Nobel for physiology and entomology was shared by Smith and an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona Justin Schmidt, who devised a pain scale for insect stings.

Schmidt advised that an individual should not get stung by the tarantula hawk, a nasty looking wasp, found in the Southwestern US, which is around a quarter-inch long. He added that the sting is completely nontoxic but hurts like the bejesus.