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I Travel 300 Days A Year: 5 Bizarre Things You Learn
Life in the jet set isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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- By Ryan Menezes, Anonymous
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5 Horrific Experiences I Lived As A Child Refugee
The bloodbaths in the Kakuma refugee camp tended to start with hunger and desperation.
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- By J.F. Sargent, Abdullahi Abdi
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6 Things You Learn Training, And Owning, Service Dogs
We've been breeding dogs for centuries for every dumb task we no longer feel like doing ourselves, but it wasn't until recently that we began training them to help people with disabilities.
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- By Anonymous, Ryan Menezes
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5 Realities Of A Homeless Shelter At Christmas
Most people dream of a white Christmas, unless you're homeless -- then it murders you. We spoke to someone who makes helping these people a full-time job.
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- By Anna Dakota, Anonymous
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6 Gruesome Things You See Working In An Aquarium
When you are a fish in an aquarium, no one can hear you scream.
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- By George Baily, Ryan Menezes
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5 Insane Realities Of A Professional Costumed Stormtrooper
TK-2918 has devoted his life to building and wearing screen-accurate Stormtrooper gear. And he isn't the only one ...
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- By R. Jason Benson, Brian Robinson
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6 Reasons You've Probably Read Russian Propaganda Today
Russian propaganda slips into our reading every day. Straight from the Kremlin, right into your Facebook feed.
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- By Robert Evans, Jim Kovpak
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6 Insane Realities Of Life As A Professional Hand Model
Although it's a job you never stop to think about, everything you've ever bought, from your smartphone to your sandwich, was sold to you by somebody using a hand model.
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- By Mark Hill
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5 Insane Realities Of The Rural Meth Trade
One minute you're a young guy selling meth, then all of the sudden you're selling heroin with the Aryan Brotherhood.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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Women Are More Dangerous Than Men: 5 Lessons Of A Bouncer
We talked to a bouncer named Cronk and learned all about terrifying women, Road House, and how everyone is just itching for a fight to happen.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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6 Shockingly Brutal Realities Of Working For A Museum
It turns out museums are deathtraps and almost certainly haunted.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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5 Awful Things I Learned About Drugs Working At A Pharmacy
Misinformation, determined addicts and dealers ... just a few things you deal with as a gatekeeper of a great narcotics vault.
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- By Anna Dakota, Anonymous
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6 Bizarre Lies Hollywood Tells When They Base A Movie On You
We spoke to LouAnne Johnson, the basis of Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds, to learn all the ways Hollywood willfully junked up the true story.
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- By J.F. Sargent, LouAnne Johnson
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6 Brutal Things You Experience As An Ex-Convict
What's life like after you reenter a society that would much rather you stay behind bars?
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- By Anonymous, Ryan Menezes
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5 Ugly Things You Learn As A Sex Slave In The Modern World
Here's the reality: If you've paid for sex, there's a significant chance the person you were with was there against their will.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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- 948