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The 6 Real and Terrifying Spider Superpowers
Spiders are more like Spider-Man than we think. Though they have yet to master the make-out session, they have racked up some other pretty crazy abilities.
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- By Monte Richard
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5 Terrifying Origin Stories Behind Popular Children's Songs
As nauseatingly wholesome as children's songs may seem, sometimes there are corpses buried under those mountains of spaghetti.
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- By John Kroes
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5 Random Factors That Determine Whether You Succeed in Life
You've stayed in school, stayed off drugs and made the right friends. Dollar bills should be raining down on you like a ticker tape parade, right? Not if you've got these completely arbitrary factors working against you.
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- By Ann Z.
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7 Movies That Put Insane Detail into Stuff You Never Noticed
We can't stress this enough: A horrifying amount of time and work go into things that will be forever unnoticed by everyone except a few members of the crew.
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- By Karl Smallwood, J.F. Sargent
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The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Animal Senses
Every now and then, an animal's sensory superiority goes above and beyond the usual and takes a turn for the bizarre and/or terrifying.
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- By Monte Richard
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The 6 Worst Ideas Nearly Included in Great Video Games
Cutting scenes from games isn't so easy, so the code is usually lurking around in there for you to find, if it's not sitting right out in the open in some early or foreign edition of the game. This can lead to some bizarre discoveries ...
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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5 Insane True Tales of Wrestlers Refusing to Break Character
For most of the last century, wrestling fans believed every storyline and bit of pageantry as the God's honest truth, and if you made your living as a wrestler, it was your sworn duty to protect the illusion at all costs.
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- By Robin Warder
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11 Images of Nature You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
One thing we've discovered over and over again is that nature is always weirder than what we give it credit for.
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- By Mike Cooney, Alex Brettingen
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5 Stupid Bets That Changed the World
You'll never believe some of the amazing feats that were accomplished simply because someone looked someone else in the eye and said, 'Betcha can't ...'
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- By Eddie Rodriguez
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Cracked Round-Up: A New Type of Presidential Debate
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- By CRACKED Staff
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The 6 Most Baffling Political Ads Ever Aired
Not every politician has celebrities and CEOs supporting them. No, some of them have to find 'creative' ways to get attention in their ads.
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- By Mark Hill
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The 10 Most Ridiculous Album Cover Trends of All Time
With an industry full of people getting paid loads of money to make decisions that don't matter, people are going to play it safe. Which is where you get trends like these.
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- By C. Coville, Chris Holmes
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5 Ways the Modern World Makes You Extremely Easy to Stalk
Almost every advanced gadget we use presents another crack that a creepy or malicious person could pry open if they got the urge to stalk us.
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- By Eric Yosomono, Lee Phan, Itzhak J. Czukor
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5 Mind-Blowingly Valuable Things Hidden in Everyday Life
Even outside of the obvious and silly examples, there are all sorts of situations where money works in ways that we just can't wrap our minds around.
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- By Chris Zeigler
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The 6 Most Accidentally Creepy Movie Romances
We've seen movies about aliens doing it with human women, 100-year-old vampires dating high school teens and Woody Allen hooking up with young starlets, among other unlikely atrocities. And yet, somehow, the writers always find new ways to top themselves.
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- By Rohan Ramakrishnan
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