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Cracked Round-Up: Monkey Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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6 Real People Who Turned Their Homes Into Death Traps
If you need additional, outside precautionary measures to keep your family safe because the original "protection" you came up with involves shotguns hidden in cereal boxes and electrocuting microwaves, you've officially crossed a line.
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- By Dan Seitz
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7 Horrific Boogeymen Used to Scare Kids Around The World
Parents have been inventing stories about monsters to scare their children into obedience for centuries. Some cultures, however, took this idea a bit too far and invented creatures that a grown man would struggle not to shit his pants at the thought of.
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- By Jonathan Wojcik
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6 Popular Monster Myths (That Prove Humanity Is Doomed)
Pretty much all of the cultures on Earth have believed in monsters for most of their history. But why? Well, it has to do with the wiring of the human brain, the evolution of cultures and, most importantly, the fact that people are jerks.
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- By Jason Pargin
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The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth
WARNING: NSFS (Not Safe For Soul)
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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6 Creepy Urban Legends That Happen to be True (Part 3!)
Also, Urban Legend 3 the movie unfortunately really exists.
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- By Nathan Birch
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- 662
5 People Who Failed Their Way to Fame And Fortune
These are the people who failed, and failed so hard, that their failures became a source of entertainment for millions... and they cashed in accordingly.
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- By Nimby Smith
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- 436
6 Characters Who Show Up in Every Zombie Movie
If we've learned anything, it's that humans are only capable of six psychological reactions to a scourge of the undead. And here they are.
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- By Michael Swaim
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Cracked Round-Up: DIY Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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The 5 Most Unintentionally Racist Movies About Racism
If it wasn't for Hollywood making a bunch of well-meaning but ham-handed and accidentally racist films, why, the rest of us would have never learned our lessons! Hail our conquering heroes, the real champions of equality in America.
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- By Bobby "Fatboy" Roberts
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Nuke the Moon: 5 Certifiably Insane Cold War Projects
In the Cold War days, the world was essentially divided into two factions: Rambo and the dirty commies. But the Cold War wasn't really about physical combat, it was more like telling stories around a campfire: Whoever has the scariest idea, wins. It didn't matter if it was real or not, the goal was to convince the other side you were crazy.
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- By Bronzulton Q
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- 324
5 Awful Storylines We Don't Want in the Star Wars Sequels
Believe it or not, there are actually Star Wars stories so terrible they do more damage to the source material than Jar Jar Binks could have ever hoped to.
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- By CRACKED Staff
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Most Depressing Superhero Ever
The one signal you want to see even less than the bat signal.
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- By Jonathan Wojcik
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5 Forms of Black Magic That Science Is Making Possible
Next stop: Dragons? PLEASE?!
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- By Christopher Wang
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- 390