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The 16 Most Baffling Pieces of Official Merchandise Ever
We get that kids will go nuts for toys, or adults will throw wads of cash to add to their collections. But the stuff on this list isn't for either of those groups. Or anyone else, apparently.
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- By Diana McCallum
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574 The 6 Most Disturbingly Evil Birds
Birds are the most majestic creatures on Earth -- we plaster them on our cars, flags and coins. You see them soaring up there, and think they're above all the petty savagery down here on the ground. Well, it turns out they're dicks.
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- By Monte Richard
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5 Soldiers Whose Horrific Injuries Only Made Them Angry
It should come as no surprise that battlefields see their share of brave men. Every once in a while, however, they see a man with a special kind of bravery, the kind that borders on suicidal. The spirits of such men can't be cut down, even if their bodies are. In fact, disabling them often just makes them all the more fearsome
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- By Eric Yosomono
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6 Old People Who Could Kick Your Ass
Most of us who still have intact and mostly alive grandparents generally wouldn't be intimidated by them in a physical sense. Then again, most of us haven't really put that to the test (nor should we). When pushed, you might be surprised what our senior citizens have in reserve.
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- By Robert Evans
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5 Surprisingly Easy Ways to Make Kids Smarter
There are some surprisingly simple things you can do to help your Bieber-obsessed Twittering child actually learn something.
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- By Sam Sprinkle
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CRACKED Round-Up: Praying for Winter Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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5 Forgotten Revolutions That Created The Modern World
We may never have had 'Darling Nikki' if it hadn't been for some world-changing movements everyone promptly forgot about.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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3 Steps to Not Sucking at Air Travel [CHART]
You're going to travel by plane. Might as well not make an embarassing mess of it.
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- By Stephen Cook
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6 Impossible Escapes Using Impossibler Methods
As we never get tired of pointing out, when you combine desperation, perseverance, ingenuity and giant balls, wonderful things happen. This is proven by these tales of men who found themselves in hostile territory with no chance of escape ... and just fucking escaped anyway
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- By Tony Pilgram, Cornelius Appin, Drew Miller
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7 Action Figures That Managed to Ruin Great Characters
Sometimes, the writers of a show, movie, comic book or whatever will put a lot of effort into creating an enigmatic character with an air of mystery surrounding it ... only to have the marketing department kill all the mystique by putting out a stupid action figure.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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6 People Who Had No Clue Their Faces Were World-Famous
Imagine that your face has been famous for years or decades, and you never had any idea. This happens -- people have found out that completely without their knowledge, they've become icons.
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- By Kathy Benjamin, Paul K Pickett
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The 5 Most Terrifying Zoo Exhibits Ever
Zoos are a place of childlike wonder. But even these places of joy can produce nightmare-inducing images that will keep you up for weeks.
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- By Megan B.
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6 Terrifying Predators Routinely Owned by Adorable Prey
Apparently, when creating the nastiest animals on Earth, Mother Nature decided that they were each going to have an embarrassingly adorable nemesis to regularly knock them down a few pegs.
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- By Tom Hohle
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Cracked Round-Up: Summer Road-Trip Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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How To Be a Person: A Guide to Life for the Recent Graduate
Greetings, graduating classes of 2011! Congratulations on accomplishing all you have accomplished to get here, and pre-congratulations on all the accomplishments you will surely accomplish in your accomplishful futures.
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- By Lindy West
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