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5 Ways Your Bad Habits Might Just Save Your Life
Depending on what's wrong with you, the cure can often be found in the things your health nut friends warned you about.
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- By Sam C.
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- 843
The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Things Ever Caught by Fishermen
If you're fishing in the right place, the other end of your line might as well be in deep space for all we know about the bottom of the ocean. Of course, what you drag up is usually in the realm of what you were expecting. Other times, it seems like it's straight out of Hollywood.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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- 674
6 Real World Spy Gadgets Straight Out of the Movies
It's almost as if the spy world pays attention to Hollywood, simply saying, 'Yeah. Yeah that'll work.'
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- By CRACKED Staff, Eric A.
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- 287
The 6 Most WTF Special Edition Comics Ever Released
It doesn't matter that this stuff is missing insignificant things like a plot, logic or even entertainment value, someone's buying these things, because the comic book industry just keeps on making them.
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- By Diana McCallum
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- 1156
5 Common Crime Fighting Tactics (Statistics Say Don't Work)
Sure, we've come a long way since the days of hanging warty women for consorting with the devil, but that doesn't mean our justice system has made it all the way out of the dark ages.
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- By Lillian Marx
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- 1689
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6 Laws You've Broken Without Even Realizing It
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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- 1799
6 Images of Abandoned Weaponry You Won't Believe Are Real
What happens when you get bored of your new toys? You just toss them out in the middle of a field somewhere. Who cares that they're worth a billion dollars and took dozens of years of intricate design and revision.
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- By Eric Yosomono
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- 671
Presenting The Most WTF Trailer Ever: 'John Dies at the End'
WARNING: The following contains numerous monsters and implied male nudity. Also may contain implied gore and implied flamethrower and implied interdimensional travel and the evil prison guard from The Shawshank Redemption and award-winning actor Paul Giamatti.
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- By Jason Pargin
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- 555
6 Arcade Games Too Awesome to Get Released in the West
The East didn't stop making crazy ass games. They just stopped shipping them west.
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- By Nick Dobkin
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- 573
6 Parodies That Succeeded Because Nobody Got the Joke
Parody and real life have essentially blended together and this is the result.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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- 1380
5 Mind Blowing Things Crowds Do Better Than Experts
There's nothing stupider than a crowd. Take an average, intelligent person and put him in an emergency and he'll likely remain calm and await instructions. Put him in a crowd and he'll start screaming, looting and overturning cars. Right? Well ... not really. That's why we have crowdsourcing.
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- By Kenny Thompson
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- 884
Cracked Round-Up: Horse-Fight Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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- 9
5 Sci-Fi Technologies People Achieved By Hacking the Kinect
Kinect turned out to be a virtual puppy petting machine and awkward wedding-dance simulator. But some particularly handy people took a look at the Kinect and saw the true potential.
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- By Augusto Corvalan
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- 476
The 6 Most Ridiculous Superhero Weaknesses
For whatever reason, comic book writers ran out of weaknesses that make any kind of sense at all right around the time that Green Lantern became weak against yellow.
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- By J.F. Sargent, Jesse Clark
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- 1235
The 6 Most Insane True Tales of Survival
Every day there are untold stories of people surviving via luck, training or just the power of will. Even when it seems utterly impossible.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- 518