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What makes a conspiracy theorist? Is it poor education, an overactive imagination, a tinfoil hat? According to one recent study, it isn’t any of that stuff, but instead something psychologically ...

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Have you ever felt like you’re spending your life trying to live up to others’ expectations? Well, you might want to give the funeral theory a read. The “funeral theory” has been trending across ...

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The Super Mario Bros. series has been inspiring generations of gamers for decades, and fans have come up with some pretty wild ideas about what’s going on under the surface of the series. For the most ...