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But it has to be more than that. And it is.

There has to be a reason that so many people read This is True.. With subscribers in more than 200 countries, there's got to be something here that makes people want to read it week after week.

You've heard the phrase, "Truth is stranger than fiction"? The way Randy puts it is, "Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense." Every week there are stories in True that are just too strange to make up! The week this page was written, for example, True ran the stories below.

One Week's Worth of True Stories

• Several people heeded an anonymous call to protest at Buckingham Palace in London for the right to "walk around in public in the nude". Three naked men were arrested. Virtually at the same time, a Scotland Yard report was issued that concludes that the greatest threat to the royal family is not terrorists, but mentally unbalanced people.

• The Tennessee State Senate approved a bill that allows motorists who run over animals to take them home and eat them. Previous law called for a jail sentence and fine.

• Psychologists say actors can become lost in their roles and lose sight of their own identies.

• A Florida lawyer files suit against a rental car company, saying they should have known the person they rented a car to might get drunk and crash -- because he's Irish, and they should have known the Irish drink a lot.

• A major car company plans to put "people-detecting infrared sensors" in trunks to pop open the lids when it detects people (like a release handle wouldn't be infinitely cheaper and more effective?)

• A major university refused to give Bill Clinton an honorary degree -- because he didn't earn it.

• Harvard Medical School anthropologists say television isn't making people in Fiji fat, but rather provoking eating disorders that go against their culture of liking large bodies.

• Mattel has come up with a way to get fathers to buy several more Barbie dolls for their little girls: dressing the dolls up in sports uniforms.

• And the featured headline of the week makes you wonder what kind of bizarre food fight provoked the Associated Press to announce: "Potato, Dancing Raisins Cut a Deal".

All of that was from just one issue! And we didn't go choose a particularly good issue to write about -- it was pretty much random, taken from the issue that was closest to the date this page was written. However, we openly admit that to have seen all of those stories that week, you would have had to be a "Premium" (paid) subscriber -- more on that below.

We couldn't make up that much weird stuff every week if we tried -- we'd need a huge staff to write it all, and we don't have one -- nor do we want one, since true stories are infinitely better! All of those stories above came from real newspapers -- not junky tabloids like the "National Weekly Star Enquirer" (as we like to call them). And we have a fresh load of that many stories every week -- and we've been doing it every week, non-stop, since 1994! We don't have to make up the stories, because there are that many stories about real people doing outrageous things every week. Really!

Is it Really Free?

Yep. Zip. Nada. No charge. Nothing. While there is a paid subscription option, most people who subscribe to True don't pay a dime: the only thing they had to provide was their e-mail address so we can send it to them. What did they get for free? About half of an issue -- they saw half the stories detailed above. Not descriptions of the stories, the entire stories, four in all, plus the Featured Headline of the Week. (For the rest of the stories, they saw a quick summary so they could see what they missed.) It makes for a nice quick read over the weekend -- or on Monday morning when you get to the office so you can start your week off right. If you really must have all the stories, then we welcome you to pay for them.

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