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How to Learn About Other People's Interests [COMIC]
Even when they're really embarassing.
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- By Scott Meyer
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- 97
The 5 Most Shocking Celebrity Twitter Feeds
Thanks to Twitter, for the first time in the history of ever, we have a one-way ferry boat ride into the inner thoughts of living celebrities, as they think them.
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- By Kristi Harrison
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- 533
CRACKED ROUND-UP: Movember Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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- 19
6 Eerily Specific Inventions Predicted in Science Fiction
Science fiction has had some stunningly accurate premonitions. And we're not talking about broad predictions, here. No, this stuff is impressively accurate.
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- By Colin Murdock
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- 809
4 Reasons 3-D Movies Don't Have to Suck
It's just a big stupid gimmick, right? If they're going to try to charge you up to $20 a ticket, you better damn well be getting something amazing out of it. But instead all you get is a big headache and something occasionally jumping out of the screen at you. Right? Actually, there are ways to use 3D to actually make movies better.
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- By Christina H
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- 707
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The 5 Most Easily Avoidable Movie Deaths
Why is it that when a character has to die, they often have to dive through mind-boggling hoops in the process? Here are a few that simply defy all logic and common sense.
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- By Fitzgerald Smith
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- 1327
5 Minor Screw-Ups That Created The Modern World
We continue our crusade to convince the world that all of the most important events in history turned on some kind of ridiculous accident.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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Local Man Realizes He Is Not Parents' Prized Possession
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- By C.J. Porter
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- 31
Late News of Adoption Comes as Shocker
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- By C.J. Porter
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- 17
5 Silver Linings Now That Identity Theft Ruined Your Life
Looking back, it was probably a bad idea to use your credit card as a Facebook profile pic.
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- By Chris Bucholz
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- 236
7 Real Car Chases Way Crazier Than Anything in the Movies
Sometimes reality grabs fiction by the throat and drags it screaming down the highway before hitting a conveniently placed ramp, ramming through a gas tanker, and careening -- airborne and aflame -- into the white house.
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- By Robert Brockway
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- 545
5 Ways Stores Use Science to Trick You Into Buying Crap
A big chunk of the world economy runs on human weakness. Peer pressure, vanity, insecurity, the fact that we just cannot resist the sight of melted cheese. There are some other, much weirder scientific principles that factor into what you buy. You might not know about them, but the people selling you things sure as hell do.
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- By Paul K Pickett
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5 Real MacGyvers Who Won Battles With Improvised Weapons
If you've ever wondered if you could win a war by using reptiles instead of bullets and using the power of rock 'n' roll, then you're in good company.
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- By Phillip Parsons
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- 449
The Biggest Star Wars Plot Hole, Explained By Science
Fans jokingly refer to it as 'Stormtrooper aim.' But it's not lazy film-making (or at least, not just that): There's actually a perfectly logical, scientific reason behind this behavior. Soldiers in real wars behave in exactly the same way.
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- By Karl Smallwood
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- 1047
4 Reasons Terminators Suck At Their Jobs
Terminators were the worst idea in history. Here are all the reasons they suck.
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- By Jeff Bennion
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- 756