Amanda Mannen
6 Inside Facts About Jeopardy From A 74-Episode Winner
You probably remember when the media lost their collective shit over Ken Jennings, who raked in over $3 million from Jeopardy. We sat down with, and here's what he told us.
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- By Amanda Mannen, Ken Jennings
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4 Things In Every Porn You Should Never Do In Real Life
These fallacies have shown up on screen so often, people have started thinking those bizarre little porn tropes are what sex is.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Insane Realities At My Fundamentalist Christian College
When college students are sent to live at a Christian school where their every move is monitored, well, there is a certain potential for things to get weird.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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The 5 Least Effective Life Hacks People Apparently Use
Life hacks sometimes just hack away at what little life you have left.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Awkward Things Nobody Tells You Everyday Technology Does
The Internet has long been a safe haven for people who can't deal with other humans. But it can't always work like that ...
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- By Amanda Mannen
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I Can't See Faces: 5 Weird Facts About My Life
We sat down with someone who suffers from face-blindness, and it turns out it's even weirder than you'd expect.
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- By Amanda Mannen, Dana Page
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6 Sex Toy Companies Disguised As Household Products
If we keep moving in the direction of the unsettling trend set by these devices, the house of the future will be made entirely out of vibrators.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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6 Things You Learn When Your Penis / Vagina Doesn't Work
We talked to two people -- Chloe and Carl -- who suffered from rare genital disorders. Each had a ridiculous and frightening tale of trying to get help in a society that would really have preferred they change the subject.
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- By Amanda Mannen, Ryan Menezes, Chloe, Carl
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5 Reasons We're In the Middle of a Dumb Anti-Photoshop Panic
Word on the street is we're all mad about photographers and advertising agencies using Photoshop to make models look supernaturally good.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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4 Secrets of The Most Common Tragedy Nobody Talks About
We sat down with a woman who had a miscarriage, both because we were curious and because we've learned you guys are willing to read about some incredibly depressing things.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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5 Awful Realities of Having Size JJ Boobs in Sixth Grade
Maybe if I had stuck it out until the phase of life when breasts are useful, I'd be singing a different tune. But I doubt it.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Realities of Mass Shootings Movies Don't Prepare You For
We talked to an anonymous survivor of the Utoya massacre in Norway. Here's what we learned about what it's like to be literally staring down the barrel of a gun.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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6 Awful Lessons I Learned Transitioning from Female to Male
We talked to Roman Jones, a trans man and American expat living in the Czech Republic. This is what we learned.
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- By Amanda Mannen, Roman Jones
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5 Products To Celebrate Valentine's Day With Pure Horror
The resulting marriage between the highest and lowest technologies is a union you wouldn't call holy, unless you were referring to actual holes.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Bizarre Realities of Being a Man Who Was Raped by a Woman
We spoke with a victim of female-on-male rape to find out what it's like to be the victim of a crime that most of society refuses to acknowledge is even a thing. Spoiler Alert: It's awful.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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5 Things People Don't Get About Borderline Personalities
Since pop culture treats these BPD sufferers (and no, they're not all women) as a walking Worst Case Scenario, we thought we'd sit down with one and see what it's like to live with it.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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5 Things You Don't Know About Strippers (Until You Are One)
Despite the venerable legacy of this career, and the utter ubiquity of strip clubs in our modern cityscapes, most people know very little about the realities of dancing naked.
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- By Robert Evans, Amanda Mannen, Meredith, Emily, Salvatore, Layne, Laura, Zooey, Helen
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5 Awful Lessons I Learned Living With a Mystery Illness
Thomas Wolfe suffered from an extremely rare disease that took four damn years to correctly diagnose. As we learned, not every possible disease a person can catch has been discovered.
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- By Amanda Mannen, Thomas Wolfe
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6 Ways Women's Prison Is More Horrifying Than It Looks on TV
I spent 18 months in a minimum-security prison after I was caught helping my boyfriend sell drugs. This is what life is really like on the inside.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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4 Corporate Logos That Backfired in Hilarious Ways
You would think multi-million-dollar corporations would be more careful in managing their brands.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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