The Man Who Was Killed By His Own Beard
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0 13 Hollywood Heavy Hitters Who Refuse to Play Nice
Should we take these creative differences outside?
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The 10 Funniest ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Flashbacks
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Before The Jerky Boys, There Was ‘Longmont Potion Castle’
Why is it so hard to simply deliver hundreds of pounds of sod to Alex Trebek?
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15 Monuments Someone Needs to Build
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Most of the monuments we go to visit were built back in a time when the coolest thing you could do with clay and paint was to make it look like the person you were trying to represent. We asked you to create the awesome monuments that the modern world would actually want to visit. The winner is below, but first the runners up ...
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