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7 Insane Realities Living In A Country That Doesn't Exist
We sat down with a recent long-term visitor to a de facto state sitting inside of Azerbaijan, to find out what life is like in a place that 'just kind of is.'
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- By Anonymous, Evan V. Symon
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5 Insane Realities Of My Life In A Fake Colonial Town
We spoke to one of these children who grew up in Colonial Williamsburg during the late '80s. Here's what we learned about life in 1699.
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- By Anonymous, Evan V. Symon
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5 Realities As A Gay Person Forced To Stay In The Closet
Going back into the closet, which I had not been in since I was 14, I found it incredibly cramped and horribly decorated.
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- By Amanda Mannen, Adam Hii
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8 Things You Don't (Want To) Know About TSA Checkpoints
We sat down with someone who spent most of the last decade working for the TSA, and he explained to us just what it was like being inside that most hated of organizations.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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I'm Trying To Cure Cancer: 6 Things I Shouldn't Tell You
We sat down with two cancer researchers in the American Southwest, to find out what it's like to be fighting on the front lines in the war on cancer.
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- By Anonymous, Evan V. Symon , Paul Akhenblit
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Most Victims Are Men: 5 Realities Of Rape In The Military
We talked to a whole bunch of former and current military servicewomen about this subject. Somehow, what they had to tell us was even worse than we expected.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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7 Things You Learn As A Cop Pretending To Be A Hooker
We recently had a chance to sit down with a pair of police officers -- John and Jane -- who carried out sting operations against street-level prostitutes in a large American city. Here's what we learned.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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We're All On Speed: 6 Insane Reasons Pro Gamers Retire At 26
There's a lot more to pro gaming than rolling out of bed at the crack of noon to do battle with racist teenagers using the power of the Internet.
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- By Mark Hill, Jesse Hall, Brandon Qual
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5 Realities Of Having A Child With Organs Outside His Body
Our source's son was born with an omphalocele, which is an abdominal wall defect. That basically meant he was a tiny bundle of horrific medical complications who needed MacGyver to make him home medical equipment.
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- By Mark Hill, Anonymous
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5 Bizarre Realities Of My 'Sex Change' You Don't See On TV
We spoke to someone who went through gender reassignment and, naturally, it's nothing like you expect.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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I Had A Vasectomy (It Didn't Take): 5 Ugly Realities
We spoke with Allen Singer, who underwent a vasectomy and told us about it in gut-wrenching detail.
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- By Anonymous, Evan V. Symon
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5 Nasty Realities Of Work In A Hooters-Style Breastaurant
We talked to a few folks to get the inside story on an industry that is every bit as creepy as you'd expect.
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- By Anonymous, Saundra Sorenson
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- 1053