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5 Insignificant Things That Determine Who You Have Sex With
Turns out there are even more things that get people to consider knowing us in the biblical way, and they're so subtle and random that pants-wearing just seems stupid now.
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- By Kathy Benjamin, Paul K Pickett
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5 Things You Won't Believe Spawned Black Markets
You'd be utterly baffled to see what's getting traded in the shadows these days.
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- By Phoebe Ng
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5 Seemingly Innocent Ways You've Screwed The World Today
Maybe you hippies are on to something -- a huge chunk of the damage we're doing to the world is due to things you probably didn't even know you were doing.
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- By Robert Evans, Budd Erickson
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The 5 Most Satisfying Tales of Payback
Revenge is a tricky thing and there is definitely a fine line that shouldn't be crossed. Still, sometimes people go above and beyond for their acts of petty revenge that you can't help but stand back and admire it.
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- By Xavier Jackson
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- 1973
Cracked Round-Up: Aeronautic Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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6 Painful Things Nobody Tells You About Fighting
There is a big difference between choreographed movie fighting and real fighting. In the real word, it's worse than you think.,
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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5 Famous People Who Succeeded Long After They Should've Quit
If you haven't found your calling by, say, age 30, it's pretty much hopeless, right? If you were going to make it, you'd have made it by now. Well ... maybe not.
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- By Simon Dufresne, Dyl Moore
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8 Amazing Works of Art You Need a Microscope to Appreciate
At the risk of rewarding those who showboat, here are folks who picked the hardest possible medium to create their work and straight owned it.
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- By Kristi Harrison
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6 Hit Songs Written By the Last Person You'd Expect
When you actually sit down to look at the songwriting credits on famous tracks, the writers often come way the hell out of left field.
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- By Adam Tod Brown, Chris Dennison
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6 Myths Everyone Believes about Space (Thanks to Movies)
Yep, it's not enough for space to make us feel small -- it needs to make us feel stupid, too.
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- By Jesse Clark, Pete Griffin
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5 Creepy Forms of Mind Control You're Exposed to Daily
We know what you're thinking: You're far too cynical to fall for the ads you fast forward through on your DVR or the little tricks employed by marketers and politicians to push your subconscious buttons. But are you sure?
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- By Dennis Hong
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- 1060
The 6 Weirdest Ways Wild Animals Are Having to Adapt to Us
Humanity's only effect on the animal kingdom isn't just pure destruction; in fact, sometimes our ecological footprint looks more like a clown shoe.
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- By Karl Smallwood
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- 562
5 Historic Sex Scandals That Put Bill Clinton to Shame
People have been sticking their bits in ill-advised places since the beginning of time, and history has its share of scandals where the details of the stories are actually quite a bit weirder.
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- By Dennis Fulton
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Cracked Round-Up: Preventative Medicine Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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The 6 Least Impressive Ways Anyone Ever Got Rich
Hey, slackers -- here's your inspiration.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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- 600