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5 Hollywood Secrets That Explain Why So Many Movies Suck
You can write off everything Hollywood does as greed and poor tate, but there are other factors that make Hollywood the soulless blockbuster machine that it is. Some of which you'd never suspect.
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- By C. Coville, Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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Treating Waiters Like Human Beings: A Chart for Beginners
Anyone who's spent time as a waiter or waitress knows that you quickly come to view anyone with an open menu in front of their face as the enemy. For the rest of you lucky folks, some advice:
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- By Corey Vaspasiano
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How to Dream Of What Might Have Been [COMIC]
You've got to be realistic. When it's someone else's fantasy ...
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- By Scott Meyer
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6 Things That Annoy You Every Day (Explained by Science)
It turns out that a lot of the things that annoy us about daily existence are just inevitable parts of larger systems and smaller systems that can be just as easily explained away by science.
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- By C. Coville
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CRACKED ROUND-UP: Amateur Boxing Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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CRACKED ROUND-UP: Love is Terrible Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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5 Myths About the Military You Believe (Thanks to Movies)
All of your information about the military from movies. But even accounting for what you already assumed was Hollywood bullshit (obviously war is not a non-stop action explosion festival), most people still have a grossly skewed idea about what life in the military is like.
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- By Steven Hiller
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7 Life Altering Decisions Made For You (Before Your Birth)
FYI: This is just another care package of horrors mailed directly to your brain from the scientific community.
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- By Sam Cooper
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The 7 Most Baffling Things Ever Discovered in a Human Body
Cracked.com: Producing your nightmares since 1958.
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- By Shelby Fero
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5 Sci-Fi Apocalypses The Government Is Actually Planning For
There are entire real government programs devoted solely to thinking up ways to counter weather-themed supervillains and other outlandish threats normally relegated to the realm of science fiction.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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5 Ways Hi-Tech Retailers Are Secretly Screwing You
There are a million little ways retailers can screw you on what you buy. But maybe nowhere is this more common than in the world of high-tech gadgets.
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- By Travis Harder
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5 Amazing Things Invented by Donald Duck (Seriously)
The guy behind Donald Duck comics might be our generation's Da Vinci ...
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- By Diana McCallum
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How to Lose at Scrabble With Dignity [COMIC]
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- By Scott Meyer
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The 8 Most Successful Politicians (Who Weren't Human)
Sometimes politicians get so bad that we make jokes about how we'd rather have a monkey, or drinking bird toy, or other humorous hyperbolic metaphor in charge, but then we never do anything about it. Such is the apathy of our voting citizenry today.
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- By Christina H
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6 Factors That Secretly Influence Who You Have Sex With
According to science, the world around you is dangerously full of hidden aphrodisiacs that can land you in bed, and even in long-term relationships, with someone who's totally wrong for you.
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- By Mark M., Kathy Benjamin, Sami Reeves
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