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12 Lesser-Known Reasons to Be Happy About Being an American

One of America’s greatest exports isn’t a product, a car or even a tangible object. It’s self-esteem. And by that logic, that means Ritalin and cheap whiskey are also our greatest exports.


Category: National News
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10 Things Overheard During Facebook’s IPO Announcement

Just a few years ago, Facebook became a simple way for teenagers and old classmates to keep up with their friends while pretending to work. Now, it’s a billion dollar company with its own publicly traded stock.

The announcement offered its own share of shocked faces and flabbergasted statements. Here are some things that were probably said during Facebook’s IPO announcement. 

Category: Facebook, Funny

13 Ways to Tell Your Team Is Throwing the Big Game

Professional sports can be a lucrative career, but for some, fame, prestige and an unending supply of money aren’t enough for them. But enough about Roger Clemens.


Category: Funny, Sports
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Check Out this Ferrari That Runs Like a Bicycle — Because It Is a Bicycle

Bicycles are great way to get exercise and get around town without maxing out what’s left of our gas card. They don’t come in very handy when you’re trying to pick up hot chicks on the weekend unless your goal is to show them that sense of humor they always say they want in a man.

Category: Funny, Weird News
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Will The New Porsche 960 Have Four-Doors?

Auto makers like Porsche usually cater to the swinging single guy. Their target audience is the car owner who only wants enough room for a massive, gas guzzling engine inside a tight carbon fiber body with only two seats: one for him and one for a very shapely lady, with enough “head room,” if you know what we mean.

However, car

Category: National News
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Harley-Davidson To Restore and Return Tsunami Survivor’s Bike

Parts of Japan are still reeling from the massive earthquake and tsunami that decimated the nation’s northern coast in 2011. Thousands were killed and even more left injured and homeless by the natural disasters and ensuing fires. The tra

Category: National News
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13 Pet Peeves of US Presidents

Being president of the United States might come with great power, prestige and responsibility, but it can also be a more difficult job than Robin Williams’ back hair waxer.


Category: National News
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Study: Facebook Users Access Site Through Smartphones More Than Computers

Some of the world’s smallest computers now make up a big part of Facebook’s traffic.


Category: Facebook
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10 Celebrity Moms We Wish We Had

We would never trade our mothers for any other person in the world. That’s because we love them to death, owe them big time for all the love and attention they gave us as children, and would not have become the people we are today without their care and dedication. That’s also because the laws of time, space and physics don’t allow such a thing to be done.

Of course, if such a thing could be done, we would have a hard time choosing a mother to replace the one we’ve got. The bar would have to be set pretty high just to weed out the potential candidates. These awesome celeb moms would certainly pass that bar, but not by much.

Category: Mother's Day, Photos
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Strange Woman Stumbles on Basketball Court During the NBA Playoffs

Savannah McMillian-Christmas stumbled on to the court during Game 4 of the NBA Finals at the Pepsi Center in Denver between the Denver Nuggets and the Los Angeles Lakers. Her goal was reportedly to meet her athletic obsession, Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin.

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13 Reasons Why You Won’t Be Getting a Mother’s Day Gift

Mother’s Day is just around the corner. That means if you haven’t done so already, now is the time to start figuring out how you’re gonna win your mom’s affection, or if you’re the mother, how you’re gonna guilt your children into showing them how much they care about you.

Some mommies, however, won’t be getting a gift or brunch in bed and not because their kids forgot that it’s Mother’s Day.

Category: Mother's Day
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Spanish Man Takes Lightning Strike To Crotch

The National Weather Service estimates that every year, you have a 1/1,000,000th chance of being struck by a bolt of lightning. We’d like to know what the odds are of being hit by a bolt of lightning in the crotch.

Normally, we don’t sit around all day thinking about the numeric proba

Category: Weird News