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6 Things People Get Wrong About the Bible's Christmas Story
We never knew the story of Christmas to begin with.
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- By Michael Voll
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5 Real Coincidences That Prove God Has a Sick Sense of Humor
If there is a higher power out there, its sense of humor is cosmically screwed up.
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- By Kevin Phelan
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5 Real Soldiers Who Were Walking Super Weapons
Despite what movies, video games, and literature sometimes tell us, war is neither glamorous nor fun. What cannot be denied, however, is that war is also where you see normal people do extraordinary things.
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- By M. Peter Storino
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5 Realities of Life When Your Brain Wants You to Murder
Lydia was diagnosed with Primarily Obsessional OCD as a teenager. Here's what she's learned in the years since.
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- By Mark Hill, Lydia G
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The 5 Most Horrifying Booby Traps in the History of War
These folks stepped way over the line from 'homicidal maniacs' to 'huge dickheads.'
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- By Ryan Terris
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- 408
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The 6 Biggest Dick Moves in the History of Video Game Design
Until the PlayStation 5 comes with an extendable middle finger, this is the closest designers have come to telling gamers to go f@#$ themselves.
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- By Codie Martin, Doron S., Ed Stevens, Simone B.
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5 Nice Things You Do Daily (That Secretly Ruin the World)
Politeness is fine and dandy, but when you extend the basic rules of being a decent human into other aspects of society, this whole civilization thing just falls apart.
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- By J.T. Ulfeldt
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5 Studies That Prove Racism Is Still Way Worse Than We Think
Prejudice persists within ourselves, we're just less aware of it.
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- By CRACKED Staff
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5 Bizarre Criminal Undergrounds That Are Bafflingly Huge
Sometimes, strange crime waves -- more apt for a Batman comic -- do happen in real life.
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- By E. Reid Ross, Robert Ngungi
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5 Creepy Ways Your Town Is Designed to Control Your Mind
All around you are little design choices you've probably never even noticed, that are absolutely influencing you.
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- By Shannon Dell
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5 'Based On A True Story' (BS) Movies
It's surprisingly common for popular movies to leave out shockingly disturbing facts.
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- By JM McNab
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- 578
5 Absurd Action Movie Scenes That Happened in Real Life
These very real people who found themselves faced with extraordinary circumstances -- and reacted by ramping a flaming police car into those circumstances.
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- By Zachary Frey
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- 289
9 Insane Animal Scenes You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
We shouldn't be surprises and yet we are continually shocked by nature's shenanigans.
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- By Eric Yosomono
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6 Horrifying Implications of the Most Popular RPG Universes
In the course of building fictional worlds full of magic and wonder, game makers have thrown in a bunch of incredibly disturbing elements they're hoping you don't notice.
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- By Jordan Elliot
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5 Historical Figures You're Picturing Almost Exactly Wrong
The problem with our perception of history is that, over the years, the combined forces of Hollywood, gossip, and biased sources have come together to form an indestructible Voltron of ignorance.
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- By Pat Carnell
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- 836