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Amanda Mannen
5 Foreign School Rules Way Better Than The American Version
There are several ready-made solutions to our many, many educational problems. All we have to do is swallow our pride and let other countries teach us how to become more better at schooling.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Dark Realities Of Living Through The 1980s AIDS Crisis
We spoke to an HIV-positive gay man to find out what it was like to live in America at the height of the AIDS crisis.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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JK Rowling Will Be The Next Disney (And It's All Our Fault)
She's really kind of a few steps away from becoming George Lucas too.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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6 Times Rampant Substance Abuse Led To Cinematic Genius
Turns out even our 'wholesome' classics were pretty much done by people high off dumpster trucks worth the drugs.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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My Job Churning Out The Garbage Behind Clickbait Titles
Young writers are turning to the dreaded content mills to feed themselves. We spoke with a former content mill writer, and here's what we learned.
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- By Amanda Mannen, T.L Bodine
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6 Things I Learned At A School Run By Fundamentalist Maniacs
What's it like to go to a fundamentalist baptist school compared to Nazi concentration camps? Glad you asked!
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- By Amanda Mannen
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I Was On MTV's The Real World: It Was Not Like You Think
We talked to one cast member to find out what really happens when people stop being polite, and start being completely aware that they're on television.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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6 Times Famous Geniuses Sold Out (And S*** Got Weird)
It turns out that making art and tricking people into buying stuff are two very different skill sets, and artistic visionaries don't make very good marketing drones.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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I've Had Hiccups For Two Straight Years: My Life is Hell
Getting the hiccups is annoying, but unless you've angered a witch lately, they do eventually go away. 'Eventually' being a pretty loose term, here.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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9 Incredibly Dumb Early Versions Of Iconic Characters
Inspiration works in strange ways. Sometimes, our favorite characters look exactly right the first time their creators debut them, but other times ... not so much.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Healing Through Magic: Scientology's Drug Rehab Program
Scientology hasn't let their extremely limited understanding of drugs and medicine stop them from treating drug addicts.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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I'm Neither Male Nor Female: Growing Up Intersex
Yes, it's exactly as complicated as it sounds.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Racism Makes People Horny: Confessions Of A Real Dominatrix
We talked to a dominatrix named Natasha to help us sort out the hows, whats, no seriously whats, and dear god whys of sexual fetishes.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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6 Mindf*@k Problems You Face Being President
Why would anyone want to be the president of the United States? The pay is so-so, the job is next to impossible, and the only real perk is meeting rap stars.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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A Theory That Will Change How You See 'Beauty And The Beast'
Mrs. Potts, the Beast's faithful housekeeper, is clearly way too old to have given birth to her 'son,' Chip. So where did he come from?
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- By Amanda Mannen
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6 Insane Structures That Will Be Awesome When Finished
Who wouldn't want to take a slide down from the top of a skyscraper.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Agoraphobia Is A Physical Illness: 5 Strange Realities
It's impossible to imagine being afraid of, well, everything in the Universe outside your front door. Unless, of course, you've been there.
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- By Amanda Mannen, Christie
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I Weigh Over 500 Lbs: 5 Surprising Realities Of My Life
We, as a society, have long mocked fat people. But it's time we started to really understand what they're going for.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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My Disease Is Shown (Inaccurately) In Every Medical Drama
Warning: If you're eating, maybe bookmark this page and come back to it later.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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5 Terrible Tragedies Exploited By Cash-Obsessed A-Holes
Reenacting 9/11 sounds ... fun?
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- By Amanda Mannen
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