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Top 101 cities ranked in hundreds of categories

c7913_usmap3.gif What U.S. city has the worst crime rate per person? Step on up, East St. Louis, IL, you've done it again! How about the coldest winters? Congrats, Grand Forks, ND! Who has the most murders? Kudos and huzzas, East St. Louis, you've pulled off a double! Care to go for a hat trick with rapes? Aw, sorry, you're going to have to settle for second behind Berryville, AR!

City-Data.com has just released their latest Top 101 U.S. Cities, Counties and Zip Codes Lists, a compilation of surveyed data from thousands of U.S. cities in literally hundreds of categories, from number of casinos to highest temperature difference in a year. There's tons of fascinating tidbits to be parsed from this wellspring of sheer information.

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Top 10 bizarre experiments, minus the ones I conduct in my basement

319fc_young-frankenstein.jpg Celebrating Halloween after the fact feels really stale and lame, like the god-awful candy corn I got last night at the mall while dressed up as Little Lord Fauntleroy. (I wasn't even trick-or-treating; that's just my Wednesday night.)

Still, that shouldn't stop you from perusing NewScientist's list of the top 10 most bizarre experiments.

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