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5 Viral Stories That Had Insane Twists After We All Moved On
There are plenty of viral sensations that took a screeching turn onto the Ohshitville Expressway shortly after we all shared them on Facebook and then promptly forgot about them.
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- By Chris Rio, Tyler Johnson
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7 Medically Proven Treatments That Clearly Started as a Joke
It's often downright baffling that a) people came up with these ideas and b) that it totally freaking worked.
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- By John Dubensky, Lillian Marx, JM McNab, Jordan Rudow
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- 390
6 Video Games That Put Insane Detail Into Stuff You Missed
The coolest details in your favorite games probably went completely unnoticed.
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- By Karl Smallwood, Ridley Davis, J. Wisniewski, Ed Stevens
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The 6 Most Amazing Things Ever Traded For Pointless Crap
With a few seemingly lateral moves, a healthy dose of persistence, and a few metric craptons of luck, some folks started from the bottom, now they here.
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- By Alexander Pan
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- 347
How Cracked Is About to Ruin Science Fiction Forever
Isaac Asimov once told me something that has inspired everything we've tried to do here at Cracked: 'Science fiction can eat a dick.'
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- By Jason Pargin
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- 279
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5 Absurdly Badass Action Figures of Unlikely Characters
Not everybody in an action film gets to be the hero. But as long as money exists, those wimps will still get a toy version of themselves.
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- By JM McNab
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- 303
5 Surprising Things That Are Secretly Making You Fat
The Western world is getting fatter. But there are far stranger forces than Loaded Doritos working to embiggen your ass.
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- By CRACKED Staff
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- 560
6 Real Police Screw-Ups That Put Chief Wiggum to Shame
Let's just say right off the top that police officers have a tough job, and there's literally no one else we want to call if somebody with a crowbar is chasing us down an alley.
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- By A.C. Grimes, David W. Parsons
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8 Insanely Valuable Items You Probably Owned (and Threw Out)
And no, we're not talking about that mint condition Batman Issue No. 1 -- we're talking about seemingly worthless junk.
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- By Drew Anders
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5 Terrifying Things I Learned While Buying Guns on Facebook
When journalist Harmon Leon posed as an extremely creepy person with cash in hand, he found that it's alarmingly easy to get some of the most dangerous weapons in the world with nothing more than an Internet connection.
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- By Harmon Leon
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6 TV Shows That Put Insane Work Into Details Nobody Noticed
This is stuff even the most dedicated fans would need a magnifying glass to catch.
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- By Adam Wears, Amanda Mannen
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- 659
5 Insane Things 'Deadliest Catch' Leaves Out About My Job
Fishing in the choppy, frozen waters off Alaska is the worst of the worst. We spoke with Dash Adams to learn just how bad it can get.
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- By Kier Harris, Dash Adams
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- 417
5 Famous Movies With Political Agendas You Didn't Notice
Feel free to disagree with us, but we think we've found compelling cases for all of these.
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- By K. R. Kelleher, Phillip Traum, JM McNab, Aaron James
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5 Epic Disasters at Sea (Survived by Un-killable Badasses)
History is full of shipwreck survivors so bizarrely unkillable that they seemed to go out of their way to mock Death itself, right to his stupid, bony face.
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- By Orrin R. K., Nyameye Dwomo-Anokye
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The 5 Dumbest Powers Ever Given to Famous Superheroes
No one remembers these -- in part because they were phased out by the comics before they hit the big time, and in part because they're underwear-on-the-head stupid.
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- By Tristan Cooper, Matthew Thomas
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- 506