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The 5 Most Shockingly Insane Modern Dictators
As part of our ongoing effort to educate the world about the mind-boggling insanity of the world's dictators, here are five leaders who treated their countries as playthings for their own deranged minds.
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- By Ethan Lou
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How to Understand Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy [COMIC]
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- By Scott Meyer
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5 Bizarre Brain Hacks That Make You Better at Sports
Talent, hard work, desire -- they're all nice if you're trying to get to the top of your sport. But all other things being equal, there are a few other factors that give one side the edge.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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5 Useful Organizations You Think Are Evil (Thanks to Movies)
Hollywood does such a good convincing us that some organizations are terrible that we forget about the good they do in real life..
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- By Diana McCallum
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6 Groups Who Don't Work as Movie Bad Guys Anymore
The biggest tragedy of the 90s was the loss of Russians as a viable movie villain.
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- By Christina H
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The 9 Most Offensive 9/11 References in Pop Culture
It's important to treat this sensitive subject with delicacy and restraint, and we promise to do so, just as soon as we get finished showing you all these people who most certainly did not.
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- By Fletcher Wortmann
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- 1990
The Good The Bad and the Ugly of Video Games [COMIC]
The spectrums for success and failure for ten different aspects of gaming.
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- By Winston Rowntree
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5 Reasons Pop Culture Is Run by Fan-Fiction
Fanfiction is actually everywhere, and in some ways you're already a fan.
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- By C. Coville
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6 Insane Uses of Animals in Wartime (That Actually Worked)
Animals have been used in warfare for centuries. Sometimes it makes perfect sense -- horses have pulled chariots, and mules have carried equipment. Other times, well, things just get a little weird.
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- By Drew Miller
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5 Technologies That Prove We've Caught Up With Star Wars
Since the day the first Star Wars movie was released, fans have been donning bathrobes and making lightsaber noises with their mouths while swinging broom-handles around their kitchens. it turns out that science is no exception to fandom: They've been working 'round the clock to bring Star Wars tech to life, and they're actually succeeding
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- By Mohammed Shariff
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Best View on the Starship Enterprise [COMIC]
A new side to some of the crew of the Enterprise ...
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- By Space Avalanche
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The 8 Most Terrifying Diets in the Animal Kingdom
Animals eat insects, and their own poop, and their own children. So what in the hell could qualify as a weird diet in the animal kingdom? Trust us, it gets weirder.
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- By Jonathan Wojcik
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8 Actors Who Look Exactly The Same on Every Movie Poster
It turns out that some of Hollywood's most iconic actors are no different than your duck-facing Facebook friend when it comes to selling their movie.
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- By CRACKED Staff, Eric Yosomono
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St. Patrick vs Guy Celebrating St. Patrick's Day [CHART]
People give Christmas a lot of heat for forgetting what the holiday REALLY is all about. But when it comes to forgetting stuff, no holiday can match up with Saint Patrick's Day.
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- By Matt Gallagher
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The 6 Most Childish Things Ever Done in Congress
Sometimes shit gets truly ridiculous in Congress.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Zach Priestly
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