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5 Amazing Performances From Actors Who Weren't Acting
If you're ever employed in an Alien film, be on your toes ALL THE TIME.
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- By Ian White
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1312 9 Foreign Words the English Language Desperately Needs
While we were busy fumbling with hand gestures and illustrations like cavemen, other cultures just made up the perfect words and phrases to encapsulate those little everyday moments filled with ... uh ... je ne sais quoi.
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- By Cole Gamble, Cathal McGuigan
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The 5 Most Unintentionally Creepy Gifts Given to Presidents
What do you get the man who has everything? The answer to that question is usually something lame like a 'poem' or a 'song' or 'a heartfelt macaroni portrait.' But sometimes it's something awesome like 'furniture made from super-predators' or 'all the cheese.'
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- By Julien Blower
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6 Insane Sequels That Almost Ruined Classic Movies
Here are six absolutely real and completely insane proposed sequels that were fortunately never made.
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- By Henrik Laine
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The 5 Most Insane Duels Ever Fought
A couple of hundred years ago, the proper method to resolve any dispute was to stand a few feet apart and shoot at each other until somebody died. It was a more civilized time.
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- By Richy Craven
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7 Steps to Being the Worst Houseguest Ever
How to get evicted when you're just crashing on someone's couch.
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- By Corey Vaspasiano
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5 Ridiculous Archaeological Frauds (That Fooled the World)
As enchanted as we are with the search for Holy Grail-esque treasures, every so often a discovery comes along that excites us so much that we forget to ask whether it might be bullshit.
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- By Josie Moore
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Cracked Round-Up: Nutmeggin' It Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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6 Ways The Creator of 'Sharktopus' Invented Modern Cinema
If we told you that the man behind some of the cheapest, crappiest and most ridiculously named movies ever made is also responsible for classics like The Godfather, would you believe us? You totally should.
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- By Garin Pirnia
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The 6 Worst Attempts at Damage Control in Political Scandals
Embattled politicians will either fess up and resign, or deny and fight charges levelled against them. Some politicians, however, choose a different course.
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- By Steve Keller
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5 Famous Space Missions That Almost Ended In Disaster
When it comes to the reality of space, you can't just make up some tech jargon and reconfigure the deflector shields. It involves a lot more effort to think through panic, fire and toxic fumes.
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- By Xavier Jackson
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7 Species That Got Screwed Over by Mother Nature
Evolution is the art of producing the deadliest, meanest, most efficient beasts possible. But it's not a perfect process: There's just a slew of animals rolling fatly around the reject pile, just waiting to be killed and eaten (and if you don't hurry, some of them will even do it themselves).
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- By Al and Bruce Paton
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6 People Who Turned the Tables on Government Surveillance
Call us old-fashioned, but if you're going to go through the trouble of spying on your enemy, you might as well do your homework. After all, it's a fine line between being a badass spy and being a wacky bumbling spy character played by Kevin James.
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- By Adam Wears, Drew Miller
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6 Movies That Inadvertently Remade Other Movies
Apparently, there are movies, sometimes decades apart, that seem to have absolutely nothing to do with each other ... and yet, when you look at them carefully, they turn out to be the exact same thing.
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- By Christopher Daed
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The 5 Most Embarrassing Architectural Failures Ever
Even architects, foremen and chief engineers come in to work hungover once in a while, and that's when we get failures like these.
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- By Xavier Jackson
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