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I had had to shit ever since I woke up. In the morning, in the evening; I’m not sure when I woke up, but whenever that was, I had to shit since then. But I couldn’t. Or more accurately, I could only ...

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We will never know how many died during the Butlerian Jihad. Was it millions? Billions? Trillions, perhaps? It was a fantastic rage, a great revolt that spread like wildfire, consuming everything in ...

The U.S. president and the rapper Vanilla Ice sat together at a UFC fight in Miami while the vice president announced that the U.S. and Iran had not succeeded at reaching a peace deal; The Trump ...

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