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6 Bizarre Things Nobody Tells You About Weight Loss Surgery
Surgery is often seen as the easy way out for people who are too lazy to diet and exercise, like a cheat code to skinny. Let me assure you, it's not.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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6 Weird Realities of My Life With an Awful Superpower
Superpowers are awesome, but did you know they exist in real life? They're just not quite as comic book-worthy.
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- By Jason Iannone, Stephanie Erdman
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5 Bizarre Things Taxi Drivers Know About You
Being a cabby is a carousel of surreal comedy, harsh life lessons, and unwelcome nudity.
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- By Anonymous, J.F. Sargent
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5 Surprising Insider Facts About Welfare
The biggest waste of taxpayer dollars on welfare is the money we spend trying to prevent people from getting welfare.
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- By J.F. Sargent, Kyle, Melinda, Rhys
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5 Things I Learned Cheating (and Getting Caught) in a Casino
Before I got sick of sucking in secondhand smoke at the tables and quit, I learned a few weird things about the art of betting on pictures of numbers and royalty to pay my rent.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz, Dr. John Oakes
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5 Ways People Who Cut Themselves Are Nothing Like You Think
When I was 16, I began hurting myself to cope with emotional stress.
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- By Amanda Mannen, J.F. Sargent, 'Emily', Lauren Ipsum
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5 Surprising Things You Learn Designing Movie Monsters
So whatever happened to good old physical effects -- you know, the models, animatronics, all that stuff? Well, we asked a couple of experts that very question.
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- By Robert Evans, David Christopher Bell, J.F. Sargent
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6 Things I Learned About Humanity Living Through a Genocide
Carl Wilkens was right in the middle of the Rwandan Genocide. He rescued hundreds from unspeakable violence. Cracked sat down to talk with him about just what it takes to stand up and stick your thumb in the eye of Pure Human Evil.
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- By Robert Evans, Chris Wilkens
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6 Weird Ways the World Looks Different When You're Asexual
Cracked sat down with a couple of asexuals to learn a little bit more about just what life is like when your anaconda don't want none.
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- By Robert Evans, Julianna, Andy H
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6 Hidden Sides of Disneyland Only Employees Get to See
We recently sat down with a Disneyland employee working on the less glamorous side of the Magic Kingdom, and we learned that working at the Happiest Place on Earth is a lot like being in high school.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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5 Insane Realities of My Life as a Dwarf
Dwarves have size where it matters most.
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- By Jason Iannone, Charles Less
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5 Nightmares You Live Working for America's Worst Company
We decided to track down three members of Comcast's customer service strike force, and learned their terribleness is complicated and also very strange.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous, J.F. Sargent
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I Don't Know My Age: 5 Things I Learned in My Isolated Tribe
Before coming to America at the age of 14, Rich had lived most of his life eating monkeys and living without power or antibiotics.
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- By Robert Evans, Rich Enuol
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6 Horrifying Things You Learn as an Inmate on Death Row
Death row prison guards are often more psychotic than the inmates they're supposed to be guarding.
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- By Robert Evans, Luke T. Harrington, Nick Yarris, Calix Reneau
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7 Ways My Modern Country Turned Into a Dystopia Overnight
We sat down with Dimitra Nikolaou, a Greek journalist, who told us what to expect if our economy ever goes tits up.
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- By Robert Evans, Dimitra Nikolaou
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- 1235