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To an outsider, Miracle Village may look like the standard American town. A sleepy suburb found in Palm Beach County, its white-walled houses and well-kept green lawns keep up the pretence of your average rural settlement. However, it harbours a dark secret: many members of the population are actually registered sex…
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From time to time, I'll be having a perfectly delightful day and then, out of nowhere, someone will completely sabotage it by saying the one sentence I don't want to hear: "What's wrong?" You see, inside I can feel like a ray of sunshine. But I, and many others like me,…
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Yesterday, just before 1 pm local time, shots were fired at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, Northern California. Three people were injured in the attack: a 36-year-old man, who is said to be in a critical condition, and two women aged 32 and 27. Nasim Aghdam, the woman who fired…
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On Tuesday afternoon the YouTube office in California came under attack, with a woman entering the building and opening fire in the company's headquarters in San Bruno, California. The woman behind the attack was pronounced dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and it's reported that at least three people were wounded…
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A woman opened fire on campus at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, California. In a press conference, police confirmed that the shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. At least three people were wounded in the rampage and taken to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. A hospital spokesman told CNN affiliate…
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On Valentine's Day, Nikolas Cruz walked into his former high school with an AR-15 and opened fire, killing 17 students and teachers. It was yet another mass shooting in America, but the aftermath was unlike any other. The surviving students rose up, saying never again, and became gun control activists.…
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Over the years, people have debated about the validity of so-called "feral children". Though dozens of incidents have made the news, most of them have turned out to be misunderstandings of medical conditions or fraudulent acts in which adults have manipulated children with developmental disorders into acting as if they…
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While some teenagers are challenging politicians on gun control, other teenagers are doing ridiculous online 'challenges' in a bid for attention. It seemed like these trends hit peak stupidity with the 'Tide Pod Challenge,' in which people bit squishy detergent packets and spat out the soapy goo. But now there's…
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The Parkland school shooting has reignited the debate over American gun control and convinced many people, rightly or wrongly, to rail against the right to bear arms. Proponents of the current legislation argue that government restriction of the private procurement of firearms is ultimately unconstitutional and harmful to civil liberties.…
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Millions of people around the world go missing each year, often without ever being found again. Where younger people are concerned, cases sometimes turn out to be runaways - but there are still many instances where more sinister behavior has come into play. Kidnapping, trafficking, and murder all account for…
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A few weeks ago, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking passed away at the age of 76. He left behind three children, Lucy, Robert, and Tim, who said of his death: "We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose…
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America has a gun problem. We have more mass shootings than every other civilized country, and after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the debate over gun control has been reignited. At the March For Our Lives, hundreds of thousands of people descended upon Washington D.C. to demand lawmakers pass…
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If you'd asked people who Stormy Daniels was a few months ago, most of them probably wouldn't have a clue. Sure, there might have been a few guys who were a bit too interested in blue movies that would recognize her face, but she wasn't a celebrity by any means. Now, however,…
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Tattoos are a unique form of expression and a significant part of many people's identities. But another thing that tattoos are is expensive. When a person decides they want one, not only do they have to think about the indelible mark that they're placing on their body, they also have to…
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It's been nearly 73 years since the Holocaust came to its end, but the scars of the victims will remain for eternity. The mass murder of some six million European Jews, as well as millions of other persecuted groups, including gypsies, homosexual people and disabled people, remains one of the…
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On May 23rd last year, Merryn Crofts passed away at her home in the UK. She had just turned 21 years old. The first sign that something was wrong with her appeared more than five years earlier, when she was just 15. She suddenly developed swelling around her face, hands, and feet,…
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After the Tide Pod challenge, you would think that the internet would be hard-pressed to find another trial that's half as ridiculous, dangerous and sheer idiotic. Unfortunately, you'd be wrong. It turns out people online are full to the brim of simply terrible ideas and that the lure of viral…
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Over the past few months, the world has been rocked by endless of claims of sexual harassment, with thousands coming forward to claim that they too were victims of vile and unacceptable behaviour. Each and every case was horrifying in its own way, however news of a sex cult that…
