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6 Insane Ways Companies Screw Over Their Employees
Don't expect mercy from American automobile factories if you drive a foreign car.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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- 552
5 Things You Think Are Crusty Old History (That Aren't)
Sometimes things you assume were relegated to museums back when your grandparents were still riding tricycles to school stuck around much longer than you realize.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , E.M. Caris
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- 339
How About We Explain (And Then Ruin) Your Favorite Songs?
Scott Weiland is kind of a creepy dude.
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- By Patrick Coyne
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- 268
7 Famous Sci-Fi Movies With Gaping Flaws
(Spoiler: This is full of spoilers.)
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- By Chris Radomile
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- 606
5 Classic Movies With Way Better Insane Foreign Ripoffs
The 'Expendables' is ripoff wall-to-wall karate and machine guns and has virtually no interest in linking events together with a narrative.
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- By Raoni Lacerda
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- 142
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6 Specific Reasons Why Superhero Movies Ruined Comic Books
It turns out those gorgeous movie types cosplaying as your favorite ink-and-paper creations are ruining them more than they'll ever know or care about.
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- By Jason Iannone
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- 497
The 6 Most Awesome Ways To Lose Popular Video Games
Many a teenager flew too close to the naked Lara Croft sun and ended up losing all unsaved progress to the gamble.
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- By Ed Stevens
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- 215
5 Irreplaceable Cultural Treasures (Destroyed By Stupidity)
The Universe has a habit of allowing irreplaceable examples of human creativity to be destroyed by Mr. Bean levels of bumbling stupidity.
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- By J. Olasz
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- 352
The 14 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (5/17)
The news media is primarily a delivery system for anxiety and impotent rage.
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- By T. S. Obiech, Scott Laffey
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- 829
Evil Ideas We Accept In Fantasy Movies (And Nowhere Else)
Beneath the wonder of powerful wizards, heroic sword fights, and enchanted jewelry, fantasy stories encourage some very dark ideas that usually fly right under our radar.
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- By Ark Tolei
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- 875
6 'Traditional' Things That've Kept The World A Worse Place
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- By Adam Wears
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- 774
5 Totally Harmless Phrases (Are Secretly Offensive Jokes)
The 'other side of the tracks' wasn't always a metaphorical term for the neighborhood with the best rib joints.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Mike Bedard, Jamie Wyman
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- 565
6 Ways People Got Screwed By Websites You Use Every Day
You could be standing underneath the Hollywood sign, and Google would still direct you on a two-hour death march to a distant observatory.
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- By Adam Wears
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- 227
6 Real DNA Mutations That Make Ordinary People X-Men
When it comes to long-distance running, we easily outperform the begrudging silver and bronze medalists, the dog and the horse.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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- 263
Hilariously Bad PSAs That Backfired Even More Hilariously
Sometimes health campaigns are made by hilariously out-of-touch public officials who have no idea how to talk to their audience.
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- By Chris Rio
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- 375