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5 Insane Realities Behind the Scenes of a Weight Loss Ad
I did something far worse, and of my own volition. I lied, I abused my body, and I psychologically abused thousands of others. That's right: I was in a weight loss infomercial.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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5 Insane Lessons from My Christian Fundamentalist Childhood
I was brought up to be just one more weapon in this terrible faith-based arsenal, but I didn't quite hit the target. Here's what I can tell you about being a weaponized offspring.
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- By Robert Evans, Hännah Ettinger
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The 4 Strangest Things Nobody Tells You About Life in China
Nothing shows hedonistic excess in China like being able to afford a pet white dude.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz, Michael Pearce
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5 Things Nobody Tells You About Breeding Endangered Animals
There are way more animal boners in the process than a reasonable person is comfortable with.
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- By Robert Evans, Davy Lauer
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5 Things You Only Know If You Grew Up in a Communist Regime
I grew up in communist Romania under the watchful eye of despotic president Nicolae Ceausescu. I watched my country torn to tatters, and it still hasn't even halfway recovered.
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- By Jason Iannone, Partice Béconne
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5 Ways Life Changes After a Near-Death Experience
While I didn't come back with any secret wisdom from the spirit world, I did have an experience very few people live to talk about.
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- By Robert Evans, Jeff Culp
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5 Terrible Things I Learned as a Corporate Whistleblower
Linda Almonte was an executive with JP Morgan Chase, and her only mistake was doing her job and blowing the whistle on her lawbreaking boss. For the last five years, her life has been a morass of lawsuits and private detectives.
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- By Robert Evans, Linda Almonte
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6 Insanely Post-Apocalyptic Realities of the Ukraine Revolt
Have you ever wondered what it's like to get so fed up with the system that you take to the streets armed with nothing but whatever random objects you can find around the house? We wondered that very thing, so we asked some people who did it.
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- By Robert Evans, Maidan Protesters, Yuliya Skatova, Alexey Karpovich
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