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5 Guilty Pleasures The Web Killed While You Weren't Looking
There are things we miss about the world before the World Wide Web. Mainly the guilty pleasures that a less connected world used to let us get away with.
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- By C. Coville
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5 Ingenious Contraptions Built Out of Nothing But Garbage
Next time you go to throw out that empty beer bottle, just stop and think: Could that be the first piece to your own Fortress of Doom?
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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7 Lost Bodies of Work (That Would Have Changed Everything)
Here are a few of the most influential works of art, literature and science in histor ...
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Reasons You Should Be Scared of Google
You knew Google would eventually show up on Cracked's 'We Don't Give a Damn' hit list.
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- By Robert Evans
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What Really Happens After a Radioactive Spider Bite [COMIC]
If the gritty reboot was realistic.
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- By Space Avalanche
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5 Superpowers We All Had as Babies (According to Science)
Not unlike Clark Kent, babies everywhere have managed to fool the world with their mild-mannered public persona, masking the amazing superpowers nearly all of them possess.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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Least Adorable Misunderstanding by a Child Ever [COMIC]
The lighter side of, uh ... child molestation.
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- By Fatawesome .com
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5 Lesser Known (Completely Ridiculous) American Civil Wars
Long before and after the Civil War, American states have been pointing guns at each other and screaming ridiculous threats. Just consider...
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- By Philip Moon
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What You Missed Last Week On Cracked
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- By CRACKED Staff
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So You Want to Be an American: 5 Circles of Immigration Hell
Sure, America is awesome, but the country lets in a lot of immigrants through nice legal channels, right? Why don't these Mexicans just try it that way? Well, having gone through immigration myself in 2009 (the legal way), I can tell you right now there's a reason.
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- By C. Coville
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5 Horrific Ways Bad Parents Turn Their Kids Into Good Money
Apparently a good bit of America's future is being raised by people who are rock stupid. We're doomed.
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- By Katy Gardiner, CRACKED Staff
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The 19 Most Hilariously Failed Attempts at Sexy Album Covers
Not every musician is suitable for the role of sexy cover model. Somehow, music producers missed that fact.
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- By Nick Coffin
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The 5 Most Half Assed Apologies for Historic Crimes
We're almost positive that Ted Kaczynski's apology was more sincere than these.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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5 Pop Culture Classics Created Out of Laziness
Turns out some timeless classics came about for crass, petty, tasteless, spiteful, greedy or just plain lazy reasons.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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6 Absurd Gender Stereotypes That Science Says Are True
Ever notice how women be all this this? But men be all like this? Oh it's actually true? Shit.
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- By Susan H.
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- 1917