WTF News

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Fifty Shades of Grey library copy tests positive for herpes and cocaine (Daily Mail)

New musical tells story of Christ entirely through Britney Spears songs (Time)

Pretty girls can't be taken seriously in army, says memo (Jezebel)

93-year-old man takes dead wife skydiving (First to Know)

World's tallest water slide will give you nightmares (Amusement Today)

Man sends ex a $200,000 bill after she says no to his proposal: "She will not get away with this." (Huffington Post)

Bill Gates grants $100,000 to design condoms out of cow tendons (Time)

Gay man tries to make a straight guy climax in Japanese game show (Huffington Post)

Inner beauty's overrated

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I'm very proud to be half Persian, but it does come with its downsides. I was born with my father's eyebrows, which require more upkeep than a blonde's. God forbid you want to lighten your hair, you'd need a lot of bleach. (I've been blonde before, and the maintenance is not worth it.) 

Nose jobs are not uncommon in our culture. After a successful procedure, a friend of a friend deleted all her "before" pictures off of Facebook.

Weed legalized in Colorado and Washington

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When I first moved to Cambridge to finish high school, a classmate turned to me and said: "You're from California, right? Is it legal to smoke weed there?"

I hated to disappoint my new friend in saying that no, it was not. Although last month Colorado and Washington state decriminalized the use of marijuana.

This increased support for the legalization of marijuana can be attributed to the increasing number of women for the cause,

How to stay out of the Friend Zone

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Chris Rock once said that women don't have male friends. They're all just... Maybe just see for yourself.

Quarter Life Crisis

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I read an article the other day about how this generation of 20-somethings are taking longer to grow up than our parents. If sociologists classify an adult as finishing education, declaring financial independence, getting married, having a child and leaving home, then 77% of women in their twenties had reached adulthood in 1960. Today it's less than half. 

I'm going to be 21 in less than a month and to be honest, this statistic doesn't scare me.