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5 Times A Celebrity's Kindness Made A Real-Life Impact
In times like these, it's good to remind ourselves that humans don't automatically use their fame and fortune to diabolical ends.
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- By Raoni Lacerda, Aaron Short, Scott Elizabeth Baird, E.M. Caris
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6 Famous Houses From Movies (That Ruined The Owners' Lives)
When fandom hits 'Single White Female' levels, we get entertaining and/or depressing yarns like these.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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5 Awesome Life Hacks Hidden In Your Own Body
Before everybody started calling everyday tips 'Life Hacks,' they were often called folk remedies, and they usually rhymed.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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6 Staggeringly Huge Problems (Everybody Somehow Survived)
Sometimes things can go spectacularly, amazingly wrong, and (almost) everyone can still walk way.
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- By Zachary Frey, Mark H.
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10 Cracked Posts Everyone Went Nuts Over Last Week - 9/20
Cats really do make everything better. Well, until you die and they eat your face off.
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- By Cracked Writers
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6 Nightmarish Truths Behind Famously Pleasant Places
If places were people, then starting today, you'd never be able to make eye contact with these cities.
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- By Isaac Cabe
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7 Fan Works So Good They Were Adopted By The Creators
It turns out there are times when a fan ascends from the unwashed masses and presents a completely self-made work that kicks the original's ass.
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- By Tara Marie
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11 Bootleg Toys That Are Completely Insane
Someone, somewhere, was trying to do the bare minimum to get around copyright law and accidentally came up with some hilariously bizarre toys.
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- By Ian Ury, Chris Rio, Steve Athens, Vicki Veritas
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6 Epic Crime Sprees That Shouldn't Have Been Possible
Despite the fact that we know most criminals are just assholes, there's still a soft spot in our heart for a good outlaw.
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- By Zachary Frey
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6 Trendy Health Foods That Are Being Sold (To Idiots)
We've proven that we will shove any random slurry down our throats if we're told it'll miraculously cure our hairy molars or medulla pimples or combustible priapism.
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- By Jim Avery
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6 Famous Movies That Started Out As Complete Disasters
It turns out that plenty of cinema classics were treated like refried dog shit by the very people making them.
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- By Adam Koski, Esmeralda Portillo, Tara Marie
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The 13 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (9/15)
Sometimes watching the news can feel like you're seeing an anti-Earth propaganda film produced by aliens.
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- By Ted E., T. S. Obiech
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8 Iconic Characters That Were Originally Insane
It turns out that even our most beloved fictional characters went through phases in which you'd barely recognize them.
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- By Ian Ury, Timo Laine, B.T. Doran, Vicki Veritas
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5 Unbelievable Ways Rich Assholes Get To Cheat Through Life
Some filthy rich people don't horde their cash or flaunt it as a status symbol, so much as they use it as a dirty green cheat code.
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- By Jason Iannone
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5 Things You Say Often With Horrible Historical Origins
It's fascinating to trace the origins of everyday phrases back and find out just how many of them were not only slang, but terms that referenced unspeakable horror.
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- By Steve Shapiro
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- 537