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7 Popular Old-Timey 'Hobbies' That Will Give You Nightmares
People used to have atomic bomb viewing parties. That is all.
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- By R. Jason Benson
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5 Things You Need To Know Before Living On Your Own
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- By Diana Cook
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- 293
5 Optical Illusions That Prove You Can't Trust Your Own Mind
These images are actually exposing glaring gaps in our brain's fragile sense of reality.
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- By Preston Xander
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5 Insane Strategies That Won Elections (and Changed History)
Sometimes, just sometimes, a politician gleefully ignores all the conventional weaponry and wins the battle by slapping the enemy down with the rubber chicken of nsanity.
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- By Xavier Jackson, Evan V. Symon , Micah Duke
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5 Things Everyone Hates (Science Says You Secretly Enjoy)
Let's face it: Humans like to whine. But science has discovered that we've been frontin' the whole time.
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- By Karl Smallwood, Dennis Hong
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5 Famous Movie Characters Who Wasted Awesome Superpowers
Seriously, most of these characters use their incredible abilities to do one or two neat things and then forget they have them.
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- By Nathaniel Cope, Josh Hrala, Rich Solomon
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7 Bizarre Early Versions of Famous Characters
The reality is that lots of your favorite franchises had to suffer through ill-conceived false starts before rounding into shape, at which point their creators hoped you would forget all about the early efforts.
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- By Joe Oliveto, Maxwell Yezpitelok, Robert Rosati
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5 Amazing Things You Didn't Know Babies Could Do
Infants tend to be lazy, stupid turds, as anyone who has had to work with one can attest. But it turns out that they're baby superheroes in reality.
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- By Zion Lights
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5 Terrible Lessons We Learned from Superman Movies
These are pure good vs. evil stories, and Supes is always on the good side. Right?
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- By Tom Salitsky
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5 Famous Frivolous Lawsuits That Didn't Actually Happen
While there no doubt are real frivolous lawsuits out there, when you go to look up the details of these stories, you usually find that things played out very differently.
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- By Nathan Blumenthal, Orrin R. K.
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Cracked Round-Up: The Non-Prophet Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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5 Hilarious Ways Game Designers Are Messing With Pirates
The eager pirate boots up the game, grabs his dual-wielded machine pistols, pulls the trigger, and ... sprays a barrage of chickens through the air.
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- By Andrew Heaton
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The 6 Most Horrifying Health Foods in the World
All of the following dishes are considered healthy in their native cultures, but we still could not be persuaded to sit down to a nice bowl full of this stuff.
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- By Chan Teik Onn
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5 (Thankfully) Extinct Giant Versions of Modern Animals
Animals we see today used to be much larger in olden times. Like, a LOT larger. Also, a lot meaner, hungrier, and ripped-straight-from-our-nightmares-ier.
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- By Fred Zhu
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5 Beloved Celebrities Who Were Nothing Like You Think
In some cases, real celebrity personalities actually contradicted the one thing they're now famous for.
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- By Dennis Fulton
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- 1951