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5 Reasons Twitter Isn't Actually Overthrowing Governments
The media loves to breathlessly cover 'The Twitter Revolution.' Unfortuantely, the only place it actually exists is in newspapers and blogs.
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- By Mark Hill
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The 7 Craziest Things Ever Done to Get Laid
Men have gone above and beyond the call of duty -- risking life, limb and country in the name of boobies.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan, Eddie Rodriguez
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The 6 Most Badass Weapons Ever Improvised in Battle
War is a terrible thing: Sometimes you have to take the life of your fellow man in the most brutal and extravagant ways...and you just don't have a good enough weapon to do it as hard as you want. That's when you start strapping every weapon you have to every other weapon you have, and hope that physics is in a good enough mood today to let you fir
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- By Tony Pilgram
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6 Insane DIY Surgeries You Won't Believe Actually Worked
Warning: Cracked.com does not advocate self-doctoring of any kind, no matter how hilarious it may be.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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The 6 Most Badass Airline Pilots To Ever Stare Down Death
While you may think flying is just a whole bunch of auto-piloting, it's important to keep in mind that pilots are around for a reason
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The Science Behind Stupidly Hot Peppers [CHART]
The Scoville hotness scale ain't got shit on us.
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- By John Larwood
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The 5 Strangest Ways Your Mind Can Get Your Body Sick
The brain can fool the body into thinking it's sick, complete with physical symptoms. And we're not talking about bullshit symptoms like headaches, either.
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- By Eric Yosomono
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Why You Should Never Fall Asleep at the Wheel [COMIC]
Especially if there are other people in the car with you.
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- By Fatawesome .com
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7 Insane Easter Eggs Hidden in Movies and TV Shows
We've shown you mind-blowing Easter eggs in everything else on this planet. It was only matter of time before we brought you ones from movies.
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- By Marconi Rebus, Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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6 Civil War Myths Everyone Believes That Are Total B.S.
We might be going out on a limb here, but we're guessing that most of our readers aren't hardcore Civil War historians. And since VH-1 discontinued their series before they got around to the 1860s, a lot of us are walking around with Civil War misinformation firmly wired in our brains.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Things Nobody Tells You About Owning a Motorcycle
Owning a bike brings risks other than the threat of a ride ending with your organs splattered across the interstate.
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- By Ezekiel Buchheit
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9 Words You've Used Today With Bizarre Criminal Origins
Apparently, English is actually just a mishmash of grunts and shrieks assembled haphazardly from the crude dialects of hobos, gypsies and rapists.
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- By C. Coville, Rani Baker
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LinkSTORM 05.23.11: The Worst TV Show Finales
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- By Fitzgerald Smith
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The Rise And Fall Of An Internet Meme [CHART]
The cake is a spy.
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- By Dr. Gentleman
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6 Objects You Won't Believe People Managed to Lose
There are some great treasures of both wealth and knowledge that remain determinedly out of sight, despite the fact that someone has to know where they are.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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