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Weird Ways TV Is Still Sexist
Like how we're only cool with fictional incest if the woman is a gorgeous blonde.
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- By Nathan Murphy, Diyar Akar
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- 1596
6 Scientifically Impossible Scenarios You've Worried About
There are several popular doomsday scenarios that movies and the Internet love to toss around, despite the fact that, according to science, they could never possibly happen.
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- By Adam Wears
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- 613
7 Ways Restaurants Screw You Over (With Science)
Everything from where you sit to the fake smells restaurants throw your way are making a damn fool out you.
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- By Michael Hossey
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- 268
5 Frightening Hellholes (That Are Now Ordinary Places)
History never truly fades away. No, sometimes leftover monuments to the horrors of humanity are turned into vacation destinations.
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- By Marina Reimann
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- 277
5 Ways Your Parents Changed Your Life When They Named You
Sorry, Buck Suckley Jr., but what's on the inside doesn't mean shit. Your name is shaping who you are in shocking ways.
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- By Natalie Vail
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- 457
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5 Hilarious Ways Game Designers Mess With Players That Lose
If you screw up stealth missions in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, enjoy looking like the mascot for a bad family chicken restaurant, champ.
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- By Brandon Drake
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The 13 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (11/17)
The news can seem like a crossover between the 'Saw' franchise and 'Groundhog Day.'
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- By Ted E., T. S. Obiech
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- 840
5 Things You Love That The People Who Made Them Despise
Everyone except Monty Python reveres Monty Python.
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- By Tara Marie
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- 751
6 Hallmarks Of Disastrous Parenting (Confirmed By Science)
There are plenty of parenting techniques that just seem like common sense, until science comes in and points out how your well-meaning habits are just making things worse.
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- By Lisa Olsen
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10 Cracked Posts Everyone Went Nuts Over Last Week 11/15
We roughed out the week's edges like 40-grit sandpaper.
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- By Cracked Writers
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6 Shady Ways The Media Makes Millennials Look Like Idiots
Look, folks, portraying the youth of today as Archie and Jughead hopped up on The Weeknd and emojis isn't going to make the world a less stupid place.
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- By Michael Hossey
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- 676
5 Movie Moments That Were Adorable Behind The Scenes
All of Hollywood's most violent, scary and shocking moments were still created by people -- people who make little inside jokes, goof off at work, and occasionally screw around with puppets.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Adam Koski
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- 237
6 Bands That Totally Reinvented Themselves To Get Famous
Many genre-defining artists started out playing the exact kind of music their fans are required by social law to loathe.
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- By E.M. Caris
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- 416
6 Famous Films That Were Hell Behind The Scenes
Really, these visionaries were committing crimes against humanity.
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- By Michael Hossey
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- 328
The 5 Most WTF Final Video Game Bosses
It turns out that developers will sometimes throw in a battle that feels like the boss wandered in from a totally unrelated story, like a stripper that shows up at your grandma's funeral.
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- By Henrik Magnusson
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- 265