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Why Giving a Professional Reference Can Be a Minefield
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How can you get out of giving a professional reference if you don't want to? HowStuffWorks has some tips.
What Are the Different Types of Life Insurance?
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Are you confused by the difference between term and whole insurance, as well as all the other life insurance you can buy? HowStuffWorks sorts it out.
Why doesn't tear-free shampoo sting your eyes?
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Some say the real reason "no tear" shampoo works is that it has Novocain in it, desensitizing babies to its sting. Fact or urban legend?
How Ben Franklin Helped Ignite the Jersey Devil Hysteria
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Founding father Benjamin Franklin is partially to blame for the legend of the Jersey Devil. Here's the strange story of this folklore beast.
12 Striking Facts About Bowling
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Millions of us bowl every year. It's socially fun, and you can drink beer and eat while you play. But how much do you really know about the sport?
Robert the Doll: Serious Nightmare or Innocent Child's Toy?
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Robert the Doll, with his pockmarked face and little sailor suit, could scare the bejesus out of anyone, but what's the truth behind the stories of his mischief?
America's Black Holocaust Museum Reopens After 14-Year Closure
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The newly reopened America's Black Holocaust Museum traces more than 400 years of Black American history, from the era before enslavement to the present.
Can You Name the American City From a Well-Known Fact?
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America is more than just a single nation -- it's made up of individual cities and states, each with their own distinct history and culture. Take our quiz to see if you can identify these U.S. cities from a single well-known fact!
Operation Midnight Climax: A CIA Sex, Drugs and Surveillance Program
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In a bizarre experiment during the Cold War, the CIA used prostitutes and bordellos to lure customers only to drug them with LSD. It was all designed to achieve mind control.
'Operation Mincemeat': The Wild Spy Deception That Helped Win WWII
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Operation Mincemeat seems like a spy novel plot. British spies left fake "secret" plans on a dead man's body hoping to fool the Nazis. And it worked.