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The 6 Creepiest Ways They're Harvesting Electricity
As the threat of global warming and other environmental catastrophes grow more and more apparent, science is looking ever more desperately for things to turn into electricity that don't involve murdering everything horribly as a side effect.
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- By Mike Haring, Dwayne Hoover
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5 Baffling Discoveries That Prove History Books Are Wrong
A generation of students found out the hard way that archaeology isn't anywhere near as much fun as Indiana Jones made it look. Still, experts in the field do have their exciting, and even shocking, days at the office.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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6 Artists You Didn't Know You Were a Fan Of
These guys impacted the art scene forever, and changed things in our world, infecting pop culture in astounding ways. And you have no idea who any of them are.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 7 Greatest Pieces of Trash Talk in the History of War
In situations where every day literally could be your last, sometimes an impecable wit is enough to get you through.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Terrifying Children's Cartoons from Around the World
Allow us to present the following traumatizing scenes from cartoons around the world. (Because we like the taste of your despair.)
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- By Carl Hoff
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6 Disasters Caused by Poorly Designed User Interfaces
Until humans learn how to command machines with their minds (or vice versa), we're always going to need some sort of menu, control panel or whatever to interact with our machines and tell them to do our jobs for us. And while most are incredibly easy, some are just plain ridiculous.
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- By John Hillabin
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6 Stupid Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
All the lessons about guns you've learned from movies are wrong. That's right: Hollywood wants you dead.
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- By Robert Evans
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5 Great Scientists Who Believed Wildly Unscientific Things
Plenty of brilliant people have done crazy things in the service of the scientific method. What's harder to figure out are the famously brilliant scientists who went above and beyond to proudly wave two middle fingers in the face of reason.
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- By Howard L.
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The 7 Most Insane Ways People Legally Avoided Paying Taxes
The truth is that the IRS isn't nearly as hardass as people think. There is a huge range of things you're allowed to write off from your taxes if you can make some kind of argument. And some of them are truly insane.
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- By Dennis Fulton
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Cracked Round-Up: Life Lessons About Drinking Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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The 6 Most Hilariously Stupid Criminal Excuses of All Time
If making fun of stupid criminals is a crime, then we plead guilty. We'll even do it in some laughably incompetent way so that we can become a list entry in one of our own articles.
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- By Tracy V.
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The 5 Most Impossible Sniper Shots Ever Made
Shooting from such a long range incurs a wide array of difficulties, leading to situations where making a successful shot is, by all logic and reason, impossible. It is in these situations where the best snipers sniff, wipe the sweat from their eyes and make the shot anyway.
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- By Xavier Jackson, James Benoist
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8 Features of the Google Glasses (As They'll Really Be Used)
The video demo of the new Google glasses is making the rounds. We update a few key moments for the sake of honesty.
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- By Sampsa Nuotio
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The 5 Creepiest Disappearances That Nobody Can Explain
When people vanish, it usually turns out they were killed or kidnapped, or at least they were very likely to have been. Usually we have some kind of an answer. Usually -- but not always.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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If Hunger Games Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Percent Honest
Every so often, The Editing Room swings by to give us abridged versions of popular movies. And we're all better people for it.
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- By The Editing Room
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