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5 Embarrassing Failures History Class Turned Into Victories
Sometimes history is written by wishful thinking. When the real event isn't quite inspirational or romantic enough, we just make up a prettier version and call it history.
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- By John Champion
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The 6 Most Frequently Quoted Brain Facts (That Are Total BS)
After millennia of research, experts still don't know very much about the human brain. As such, most of what you have picked up on the subject from pop culture is just laughably wrong.
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- By J.N. Chaney
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Rock Timeline: From Classic Rock to Modern Crap [COMIC]
Pay special attention to the thievery panel. You might learn something.
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- By Winston Rowntree
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6 Animals That Kill Nature's Scariest Creatures For Fun
For every animal you'd be terrified to run across in the wild, the odds are there is at least one other beast who sees it as a tasty snack. And often it's what you'd least expect.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 7 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Propaganda Campaigns
We sort of expect propaganda to be a little stupid to begin with, but there are some examples that go beyond all our expectations and into the land of the hilarious.
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- By Danny Vittore
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6 Things You Won't Believe Animals Do Just Like Us
Hold on, humanity. Before we go boasting about our opposable thumbs, maybe we should take a deep breath and calm down.
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- By Kristi Harrison, Fady Labib, Eddie Rodriguez
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Cracked Round-Up: Fine Dining Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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12 Great Parenting Products for Traumatizing Your Baby
We get it. Parenting is hard. We also get that it's human nature to invent useless products for people who don't know any better than to just throw gadgets at every problem ... which is why we wound up with these.
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- By Tracy V.
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A Bad Day at the Sandwich Shop [COMIC]
An amazing tale of paitence.
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- By Dan Markowitz
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6 People Who Single Handedly Screwed Entire Economies
Yet throughout history there have been times when everything came together just right for one single person to screw it all up.
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- By Robert Evans, Sam Cooper
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6 Great Products For Making Your Pet Hate You
When our pets one day inevitably rise up, they'll probably be pretty pissed about a whole bunch of things. This is just a sample of why we'll be dying slow deaths.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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5 Classic Movies That Almost Had Terrible Endings
WARNING: THIS WHOLE ARTICLE IS A SPOILER
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- By Lex Black
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The 5 Creepiest Ways Animals Have Mastered Mind Control
Humans have been trying to control each other's minds for centuries, but have only succeeded in getting people to buy more tortilla chips and hand cream. Meanwhile, in the animal kingdom, absurd comic-book style mind-control plots have been coming true for millennia.
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- By Luke Taylor
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The 6 Most Inexplicable Cartoon Adaptations Ever
Sometimes it makes sense to spin-off a live-action property into a cartoon. But sometimes a TV show or character is dumped into the laps of some cartoon writers who are told, 'Just make up whatever pops into your head. Kids are stupid.'
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- By Anthony Scibelli
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5 Physical Details That Reveal Highly Personal Information
None of these are 100 percent, and you should not use any of them to make unfair assumptions about people. It is only in the name of entertainment that we point out what researchers have found.
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- By Kathy Benjamin, Eric Yosomono
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- 884