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Blood, Drugs, & Cheating: 5 R-Rated Realities Of Gymnastics
Future Olympic gymnasts get their start as toddlers, and then it gets worse.
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- By Anonymous, Evan V. Symon
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I Am Young And I Have Alzheimer's: 6 Awful Realities
Kevin Ducharme is 41 with Alzheimer's. We're giving him a chance to share all he knows about it, while he's still able to share anything at all.
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- By Kevin Ducharme, Ryan Menezes
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6 Horrific Realities When Your Skin Falls Off For No Reason
Despite its adorable name, butterfly skin disease is an excruciatingly painful and deadly illness that gifts your skin with the raw durability of soggy tissue paper.
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- By Lucy Bell, Carolyn Burke
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The Real Reason You Wait: 6 ER Realities Not Seen On TV
Real emergency rooms aren't nearly as sexy as George Clooney led us to believe.
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- By Ryan Menezes, Gabriel Valadez
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5 Dark Things You Learn About Humanity Cleaning Up Bonnaroo
What happens when you get tens of thousands of littering humans all in exactly the same spot, and get them all drunk? Here's a hint: It's pretty gross.
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- By Mark Hill, Anonymous, Evan V. Symon
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6 Weird Things You Experience In A Marching Band
Cracked wanted to know if the middle school stereotypes about 'band geeks' hold true all the way at the top, so we sat down with a couple college marching band members. This is what we learned.
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- By Anonymous, Evan V. Symon
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6 Realities In A Super Religious Family That Wants Me Dead
Honor killing claims 5,000 lives every year. And for some young Muslims, mostly women, all it takes to become a statistic is living a normal adult life.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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5 Terrible Things You Learn As A School Bus Driver
The real Miss Frizzle would've let the bus run in a closed garage before dealing with those kids again.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz, Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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6 Realities Of Life As The Parent Of An Autistic Child
We spoke with Ryan Nichols, whose seven year-old son, Sam, has autism so severe he needs constant caring for. Here's what we learned.
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- By Carolyn Burke, Ryan Nichols
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Your Neighbors Try To Murder You: 6 Realities In A Genocide
We sat down with a survivor of the Bosnian genocide to try to get some small hint of what it's like, and to try to understand how this even happens.
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- By Robert Evans, Sudbin
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5 Things You Learn Helping Rich College Kids Cheat (For Pay)
Note: If you get caught doing this shit, you'll get kicked out of school. Do not take any of this as a recommendation.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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5 Things You Learn About Sex As A Sex Therapist
For totally not-personal reasons, we found ourselves talking to Amber, a licensed sex therapist. Here's what she told us about human sex in general
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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5 Things You Learn Professionally Squatting In AWarehouse
All over the world you'll find a different kind of squatter community, involving hundreds of people -- often artists -- who live their lives outside the direct control of the law. We visited a couple to see what it's like.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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Never Wear Seatbelts: 8 Things You Learn In A Modern Warzone
When artillery starts exploding you want to be as mobile as possible - begin by disabling your car safety belts.
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- By Robert Evans, Jim Kovpak
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5 Things I Learned Slaughtering Millions Of Chickens
We spoke to Sam, a supervisor at a large-scale chicken farm, about how they manage to kill and package millions of birds a week. Here's what we learned.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz, Anonymous
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