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If Airplane Safety Instructions Were Honest
Plus, loads of extra seatback reading material!
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- By Winston Rowntree
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- 453
6 New Age Cures That Aren't As Full Of Crap As You Think
It's no shock to find out that remedies involving magic and ghosts don't really make your pain go away. It would be more of a surprise to learn that they do. Well ... surprise! (Sort of.)
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- By Pauli Poisuo, Alexia Franklin
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- 1592
The 5 Most Insane Examples of Chinese Counterfeiting
The amount of work and creativity the Chinese underworld puts into their fakes is so damn impressive that you have to wonder why they'd ever need to steal other people's ideas.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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- 818
6 Iconic Things You Won't Believe Began as Publicity Stunts
Apparently, some of the most iconic places and rituals in the world were started purely to create 'buzz.'
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- By Erik Germ, Tracy V.
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- 564
The 5 Most Spectacular Landscapes on Earth (That Murder You)
Mother Nature is an evil bitch that wants us dead.
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- By Budd Erickson
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- 1128
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7 Awesomely Insane Guns People Actually Used
Once we invented the gun, that was pretty much it, right? It's a tube of death, why mess with the concept? Because you're a crazy person, that's why.
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- By Adam Wears, Ben Adelman
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- 558
Cracked Round-Up: Avoid Crack Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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- 5
6 Acts of Real-Life Heroism Made Possible by Video Games
Video games might actually be good for something after all. But remember, games are neither good nor evil -- it's all in what you do with them.
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- By Mike Cooney, Eddie Rodriguez, Steve Hanley
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- 795
5 Mind-Blowing Things Found in Our Own Solar System
Space is full of mysteries, and you don't have to go far to find them. It's easy to forget that, after mankind went to the moon and found out it was just a boring, dusty ghost town.
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- By Budd Erickson
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- 1010
6 Tiny Mistakes That Caused Apocalyptic Explosions
Settle in and celebrate the fact that no matter how badly you've screwed up at work, you've probably never caused an explosion that destroyed half of a city.
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- By Douglas A. McDonnell, Sohrab Merchant
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- 539
5 Insane Cases of Imposters Passing for World Leaders
Looking like someone famous can lead to a lot of good things ... and lots of ridiculous, ridiculous things (including porn).
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- By Karl Smallwood, Evan V. Symon
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- 421
6 Horrifying Implications of the Harry Potter Universe
We have a feeling that Harry Potter is never going away. Which is fine because we love talking about how pants-crappingly terrifying that whole universe is.
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- By Micah Kolding, Michael Greenbrier
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- 2701
4 Superhero Reboots We'll See Next
For all the gritty realism in comic book movies these days, they're not exactly realistic ...
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- By Winston Rowntree
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- 1100
7 Scientific Reasons You'll Turn Out Just Like Your Parents
Science has some bad news for you: The behaviors of the elderly that you write off as old-person lameness, and your behavior that the elderly credit to dickish rebellion, are all based in biology. And no, you can't stop it.
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- By Michael Record
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- 1662
6 Historical Events That Are Way More Modern Than You Think
In which you'll discover that stuff you only thought existed in grainy old pictures continued until just a few years ago.
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- By Robert Evans, Pauli Poisuo, Jacopo della Quercia , Xavier Jackson
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- 1088