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I Am A Professional 'Submissive' Sex Worker: 6 Realities
There's nothing technically illegal about getting paid to beat someone up with their permission, as long as you don't touch their gabbles.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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6 Strange (Sometimes Illegal) Realities Of Fox Hunting
It's a brutal sport where the fox never dies instantly, and sometimes, when you're there, only pieces of the animal remain.
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- By Anonymous, Evan V. Symon
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Mormons Run Everything: 5 Things You Learn Working In Vegas
If you've had a blast in Las Vegas recently, rule number one is what happened there stays there. Rule number two is you thank a mormon.
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- By Anonymous, Evan V. Symon
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I Farm Crickets, The Future Of Human Food: 7 Insane Truths
In roughly 80 percent of the countries on Earth, people eat insects, so we sat down with one man who has made it his life's work to get Americans to eat more bugs.
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- By Robert Evans, Kevin Bachhuber
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5 Weird Realities Of Growing Up With 'Illegal' Parents
Like millions of other kids under deferred action, I was brought to the US at the age of two. And even with protection from deportation, the path of permanent legal status continues to be a nightmarish, unfinished road.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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I've Got Narcolepsy: 6 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About It
You know that moment when the alarm goes off and all you can think is
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- By Amanda Mannen, Anonymous
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5 Insane Things TV Forgets To Mention About Nurses
It may seem like we're intentionally seeking out just the grossest, most horrifying jobs in the world for these articles, but we assure you we're not doing it on purpose.
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- By Anonymous, Ryan Menezes
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It Could Happen Here: 5 Ways Civil War Changes Modern Life
While they were busy getting degrees, raising families and starting careers, a civil war snuck up and slapped the people of Ukraine right in their pants.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous, Jim Kovpak
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Your Purebred Is Inbred: 5 Realities Of Dog Breeding
Purebred dogs: A noble idea that has gone horribly wrong in recent years.
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- By Anonymous, Evan V. Symon
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5 Things Nobody Understands About PTSD (Thanks To Movies)
America loves the idea of its soldiers. But the thing is that real human beings are coming back from war zones with a long list of nightmarish health problems that pretty much nobody wants to hear about.
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- By Mark Hill, Anonymous
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5 Brutal Reasons 75% Of Special Ed Teachers Quit
When your students have physical conditions that make it difficult for them to even sit in a chair or hold a pencil, an already thankless job is taken to a whole other level.
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- By Anonymous, Carolyn Burke
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I Supported A Family Playing Poker: 5 Dark Realities
Unless you're made of stone, taking other people's cash will sometimes make you feel like the biggest bastard in the world.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz, Anonymous
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5 Realities Of The One Illegal Drug Available Everywhere
As anybody who's sadly tried to suck the last of the whipped cream out of the can can attest, nitrous oxide can get you high. And, like any powerful drug, it breeds its own kind of addicts.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous, Evan V. Symon
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6 Creepy Realities Of The (Shockingly Real) Rat Hunting Game
Nothing important ever goes away -- it just evolves -- and today the tradition of ratcatching lives on through professional exterminators and amateur rat-hunting groups.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz, Richard Reynolds
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I Have No Sense Of Smell: 5 Insane Realities
A world without sniffing farts seems promising at first, but here's the stinking truth.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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- 301