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7 Incredible Scientific Innovations Held Back by Petty Feuds
We would probably all be flying to work on rocket motorcycles by now if history's greatest geniuses hadn't spent their entire careers arguing over who had the biggest Bunsen burner.
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- By Jack Mendoza
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6 True Stories About Disneyland They Don't Want You to Know
What's that? You don't typically associate the Happiest Place on Earth with crippling depression, rabies, discrimination and hate crimes? We can fix that!
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- By Danny Gallagher, JD Niemand
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6 Supposedly Ancient Traditions (That Totally Aren't)
Patriotism, sex and money. People will use any reason to create a tradition. Especially the sex part.
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- By Robert Evans, CRACKED Staff
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5 Unknown Schmucks Who Turned Into Superheroes in the Clutch
Let's face it: The experts that are supposed to be taking care of business aren't always available. Thankfully, completely unknown and unqualified people came to save the day.
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- By Paul K Pickett
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The 6 Most Important Things Humanity Just Plain Forgot
Turns out some of the most amazing things ever discovered wound up lost or forgotten for centuries, for utterly ridiculous reasons.
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- By David Graham
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The 5 Worst Deaths Written for Great Characters (And Why)
Occasionally you see a character die in an abrupt, pointless way that seemed to have been written in as an afterthought, or even in such an undignified way that you suspect the writers included it as a 'screw you' to the actor. Well, there's a reason for that.
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- By Travis Harder
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Cracked Round-Up: iPad Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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Cracked Round-Up: Brown Out Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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The 5 Biggest Mistakes Women (Like Me!) Make On The Internet
Wait, wait, wait. Women use the Internet!?
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- By Christina H
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My Ill-Fated Attempt to Save a 'Suicide Girl'
I rescued a young girl from the toxic oil slick of internet pornography, cleaned her like a tiny otter and allowed her to sleep in my guest room for a night. And just like the otter, she was wild, incapable of underst
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- By Soren Bowie
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The 5 Biggest Assholes Who Ever Turned Out to Be Right
Yeah they were right and had some profound ideas. It doesn't change the fact that they're douchebags.
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- By Dan Seitz
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15 Unintentionally Perverted Toys for Children
So many dongs.
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- By Clive Jameson
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6 Mind-Blowing Achievements in Propaganda
When you think 'propaganda' you immediately picture a huge statue of a dictator, or banners stamped with corny slogans. You think of the kind of clumsy brainwashing that only works on uneducated peasants.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Shockingly Powerful Kids Who Make You Look Like a Coward
While we spent our childhoods using our boogers to glue our other boogers into super boogers, these youngsters spent theirs rocking the universe with their flagrant--and often chilling--displays of power.
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- By Kristi Harrison
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Darth Panel: How The Empire Reformed Health Care [COMIC]
Health care is a bitter debate, even in a galaxy far, far away...
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- By GundamPanda, Winston Rowntree
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