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5 Animals That Can Do Amazing Things (With Their Butts)
Some animals shape the world around them using nothing but their asses, because life is occasionally just as wonderful as we always knew it was meant to be.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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5 Tiny Animals That Deserve Their Own Horror Movie
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- By E. Reid Ross
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5 Everyday Objects Scientists MacGyvered Into Huge Advances
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- By Scott Santens
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5 Shockingly Progressive Policies from Insane Dictatorships
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- By Eric Yosomono, J. Wisniewski, Ivan Farkas, Rachel P.
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5 Famous Works That Were Just Half-Assed Copyright Abuses
Sometimes suck is a byproduct of honest effort gone bad, and sometimes suck is a direct result of cynical copyright shenanigans.
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- By Scott Elizabeth Baird
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5 Hilarious Jobs People Had to Do Before Modern Technology
Sure, some obscure part of your brain might remember that distant and fantastical time when humans once sewed garments and assembled cars, but you probably had no idea about these gigs.
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- By Alexander Pan
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5 Things Movies Always Get Wrong About Space
Thanks to Hollywood magic, we've at least got a pretty good idea of what it's like in space. Right?
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- By Fernando Ramirez, Tim Howell
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8 Horrifying Movie Props You Won't Believe You Could Buy
Out of their original context, many of these are pure nightmare fuel.
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- By Tristan Cooper
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The 6 Most WTF Old-Timey Porn Trends
Warning: Fairly NSFW Images Ahead.
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- By Tristan Cooper
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The Drunken Wisdom of Harry Potter
Because if LOTR taught us anything, it's that wizards in chemically altered states have all the answers.
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- By Michael Swaim, Abe Epperson
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6 Works of Propaganda That Backfired in Hilarious Ways
Political propaganda, much like a late-night infomercial, is supposed to make you let someone else screw you over. Sometimes, however, propaganda ends up convincing everyone that the people in positions of power are as dumb as, if not dumber than, everyone else.
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- By Pat Carnell
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69 Awesome Brain Hacks That Give You Mind-Blowing Powers
We don't know much about computer hacking here at Cracked, because that stuff involves numbers, but we've come across a whole bunch of different crazy brain and body hacks over the years.
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- By Cracked Writers
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- 190
6 Shockingly Evil Abuses of Power by School Officials
While you may get some lazy or incompetent faculty, you don't expect these people to be running toddler fight clubs in the basement. And yet ...
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- By A.C. Grimes
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8 Useful Foreign Words the English Language Needs to Steal
Despite the fact that dozens of new slang terms enter the English language on a weekly basis, there are still all sorts of things in our daily lives that just don't have words.
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- By Dominik Zezula
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5 Country Names That Are Stupid When You Know the Backstory
Some of the origins behind the names of countries are downright ridiculous.
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- By Ruy Platt
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13 Eyebrow-Arching 'SNL' Hosts
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- By Matt Solomon
14 Overrated Candies (That We Wouldn't Miss)
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- By Shea