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6 Famous Musicians Who Swiped Their Biggest Hits from Others
Many times 'what it takes' has less to do with talent and more to do with the capacity to take songs someone else rejected or flat-out steal them from another artist.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Movie Heroes Who Caused Their Own Huge Problems
Sometimes the biggest obstacle heroes have to face ... is themselves. And no, we're not talking about some poetic inner struggle BS ...
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- By Aatif Zubair
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5 Organizations That Gamed the System and Screwed the Public
Nobody likes being scammed. Nobody working for these companies gave a shit about that.
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- By A.C. Grimes
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- 571
The 5 Most Elaborately Hidden Video Game Easter Eggs
Some developers prefer to hide their secrets like you would hide your particularly shameful pornography.
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- By Karl Smallwood, Ed Stevens, Ivan Farkas
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- 503
Help! We're Losing All Our Writers to Fame and Fortune
We want to give you money to write for us. Seriously.
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- By Jason Pargin
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- 400
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6 Easter Eggs Buried in Famous TV Shows
You have to admire it when creators make this sort of effort.
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- By Aaron Short
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- 704
5 Real Planets Way Weirder Than Anything in Science Fiction
It turns out that the only 'theme' a real planet can have is unbridled, awestruck terror.
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- By Andrew Heaton
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5 Ways Life in Iran Is Nothing Like You Think
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- By Eric Yosomono, Lloyd George
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5 Famous Pieces of Presidential Trivia (That Are Total BS)
We cling to certain well-known tales that help us easily label and categorize our presidents. There's only one problem with these little nuggets of awesome: Not nearly all of them are true.
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- By Alex Hanton
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5 Amazing Magical Powers Created by Simple Science
Science can do things that not only seem like magic, but make magic tricks look like a bunch of ridiculous bullshit.
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- By Steve Shapiro, Daniel Nest, Captain D
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- 335
6 Actors Who Thought They Had Made a Totally Different Movie
When all you have is a big green wall behind, sometimes you just don't know what kind of movie you're really making.
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- By P. Chung
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5 Animals That Do The Exact Opposite Of What They're Supposed To
Some animals raise a middle finger (or claw, or tentacle) to stereotypes and flip our world upside down.
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- By Dyl Moore, Ed Stevens, Ryan Menezes, Sativa Savant
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- 504
6 Dog Breeds With Secret Superpowers
It turns out humans have bred all sorts of weird superpowers into these animals to help them do our bidding.
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- By E. Reid Ross, Dominik Zezula
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6 Legitimate Organizations That Secretly Act Like the Mafia
In every system at every level of society, you're bound to come across at least one group bent on exploiting you with puppy-punching ruthlessness.
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- By A.C. Grimes
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- 464
6 Shocking Studies That Prove Science Is Totally Broken
One thing we've learned, as a site that likes to publish reader-friendly science articles, is how much of the stuff that comes our way is, well, worthless.
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- By Andrew Marinus, Alan Boyle, Jon Pearl
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- 1381