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6 Disturbing Unanswered Questions from Children's Movies
While the protagonists of kids movies are learning important lessons and living happily ever after, some overlooked characters end up suffering fates that are often worse than death.
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- By Carl Hoff
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The 6 Creepiest Sexual Encounters in Comic Book History
Comic books have mastered the art of finding new and creative ways of making sex bizarrely unappealing, even to people who read comic books.
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- By Diana McCallum, E.D. Gonzalez
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5 Supposedly Badass Criminals Caught in Embarrassing Ways
Criminal masterminds do exist; there are bad guys who have gotten away with their deeds for decades without ever leaving enough evidence behind for the cops to make a case. Yet, when these guys eventually get caught, the reason is usually exactly as stupid as that time your neighborhood meth head got nailed for trying to steal a cop car with the co
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- By Douglas A. McDonnell, Evan V. Symon
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5 True Tales of Good Fortune With Horribly Cruel Plot Twists
If life loves to beat one lesson into our heads over and over again, it's this: If something is too good to be true, it almost always is. Just ask these people.
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- By Erik Germ
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The 17 Most Important Things Said About the 2012 NFL Draft
For the handful of you who weren't following along live, we covered the 2012 NFL draft live last night. On the job from the Cracked war-room, we had Soren Bowie (our resident NFL expert and a die hard Broncos fan) as well as Cody Johnston (has a last name that sounds sort of like that of Magic and Michael Johnson, who are both athletes).
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- By CRACKED Staff
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6 Tiny Mistakes That Almost Ended the World
For those of us who grew up in the '80s and '90s, it's difficult to fully understand just how close to annihilation we actually came in the 20th century.
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- By Chris J.
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6 Old-Timey Comics Straight Out of a (Bad) Acid Trip
Why is it that Batman (1939) and Superman (1938) endured when all of the other comic book characters from that era were forgotten? Well, it's partly because they were absolutely insane. Behold the dark madness ...
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- By Pip Ury
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6 'Luxury' Spa Treatments for the Extremely Rich and Insane
Different people find different things relaxing. Some people enjoy a nice massage, others enjoy elephants stepping on them.
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- By Isaac Cabe
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5 Clearly Fake News Stories That Fooled the Media
When every news outlet feels like it has to break stories before Twitter has the chance, a lot of corners get cut. Specifically, the corner called 'fact checking.'
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- By Danny Gallagher
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5 Futuristic Technologies Invented in the Wrong Century
Every once in a while the universe gets its wires so crossed that something we tend to think of as the far-fetched brainchild of some science fiction writer actually happened in the real world well before we ever saw it on a movie or TV screen.
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- By R. Jason Benson
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5 Gender Stereotypes That Used To Be the Exact Opposite
If society has taught us one thing, it's that it becomes way too easy to claim that all sexual and gender stereotypes date back to the early days of human evolution.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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18 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped (Part 9)
As we've demonstrated many times before in our most popular feature on Cracked, the forces of the universe love the sound of people shouting 'Fake!' at their computer screens, and photographers love to capture the proof.
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- By Joe Russo
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6 Nobodies Who Turned Into Superheroes Without Warning
Next time someone tells you to get a hobby, might we suggest stopping suicides?
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- By Paul K Pickett
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Cracked Round-Up: Prank Week Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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5 People Who Held Grudges Well Past the Point of Sanity
True story: This is an article full of people so angry that one tracked down the author and threatened him.
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- By Xavier Jackson, Chris Radomile
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- 1084