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5 Ridiculous Health Myths You Probably Believe
It's a thankless task, knocking down these myths, but one we believe is for the ultimate good of humanity.
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- By Aces M.
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5 Reasons Superhero Movies Are a Bubble That Will Soon Burst
Bad news: The explosion of big-budget superhero movies is a bubble that seems poised to burst. How do we know? Because it's happened before.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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5 Horrifying Details Hidden in Classic Children's Cartoons
Children's franchises like to put up a front that's all lollipops and rainbows, but scratch the surface and you find that those lollipops are produced by child slave labor, while all those rainbows are the offal resulting from a mass unicorn slaughter.
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- By Elsa Moriarty
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The 5 Creepiest Smear Campaigns Launched by Powerful Groups
There are many ways to deal with criticism: You can address it with counterarguments, you can use it to improve yourself, you can ignore it ... or you can spend inordinate amounts of money trying to nuke the reputation of your critics in the hopes that it will make people stop listening to them.
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- By Danny Gallagher
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The 7 Most WTF Houses People Actually Live In
Sure, they're rare, and you might not want to actually live in them, but it's at least possible that one day you could set up shop in one of these.
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- By Richie Ryan
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Cracked Round-Up: Summer Politics Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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9 Insane Cities You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
Humans are infinitely creative and resilient, and that they will live in exotic locales that challenge the limits of logic and/or sanity.
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- By Eric Yosomono, Ivan Farkas
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7 Classic Movies That Almost Had Absurdly Dark Endings
Thankfully, someone decided to change them to keep people from sobbing through several traffic lights on their way home from the theater.
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- By Robin Warder
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5 Important Things You Won't Believe Comic Books Invented
There are times in history when comic book pages splashed to life and changed the world in amazing ways or predicted the hell out of some pretty major stuff.
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- By Diana McCallum
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5 Horrifying Ways the Universe Has Repaid Good Deeds
Sometimes karma just decides to take a holiday and leaves us to sort ourselves out.
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- By Xavier Jackson
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5 Ridiculous Myths Everyone Believes About the Wild West
There were never quick-draw artists who could shoot a six gun out of your hand with another six gun. But the basics were true, right? Well ... not exactly.
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- By J. Wisniewski, Kevin Nakamura
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5 Heartwarming Stories to Restore Your Faith in Celebrities
We should stop every now and then and point out when celebrities do nice or even heroic things. Because it does happen.
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- By Ricardo Rivera
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5 Craziest Ways Men Have Censored Female Sexuality
Some governments seem to go out of their way to come up with the most ridiculous measures to preserve the modesty of their citizens.
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- By Hiram H. Huckabee
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8 Ordinary Things That Look Insanely Cool Under a Microscope
A really powerful microscope is the sort of thing nobody would buy for entertainment, yet we can't shake the feeling that if we had one, we'd use it all the time.
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- By Dustin Koski, Evan V. Symon , Kier Harris
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6 Mysterious People at the Heart of Unsolvable Mysteries
Occasionally, people will go down in history for some great deed or misdeed without anyone ever knowing who the hell they were.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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- 974