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6 Ways Nature Cleans Up Our Messes Better Than We Do
Every once in a while, Mother Nature surprises us with her resiliency, Wolverine-like healing abilities and willingness to step in and clean up our filthy messes when we prove ourselves incompetent.
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422 The 6 Most Ridiculous Things Ever Taxed
Throughout history, governments have used high taxes to try to discourage certain behaviors (like smoking) and cash in on others. So it's very telling and/or frightening that at various times governments have taxed some rather ridiculous things.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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6 Beauty Products that Qualify as Torture
You already know that beauty comes with a price that you pay both in money and pain. Lots and lots of pain.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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Five Surefire Ways to Piss off a Smoker [CHART]
If you really want to take years off a smoker's life, ask them any of these questions.
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- By Stephen Cook
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9 Acts of Vigilantism Straight Out of a Comic Book
Forget about the Justice League or the X-Men: If the awesome people in this article joined together into a supergroup, they could kick more ass than every comic book superhero team combined.
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- By Paul K Pickett, Karl Smallwood
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6 Hugely Popular Books That Accidentally Screwed The World
Even if you're not a writer or creative type, all of us dream of doing something to change the world, even if it's a small thing like being the guy to single-handedly catch bin Laden and throw him from a helicopter into the rotors of another helicopter. But be careful what you wish for; sometimes your 'world-changing' work doesn't necessarily chang
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Things That Are Apparently OK To Do in the Name of Sports
Unlike LARPing, sports give you a free pass to act ridiculous and buy all sorts of crazy crap.
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- By Christina H
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2011 Movie Generator [CHART]
We're starting to notice a pattern here.
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- By metallicfire
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8 Terrifying Skeletons of Adorable Animals
As with everything, it's really the cute creatures that are harboring true horror just beneath their skin.
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- By Adam Wears, Mike Lamb
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6 Bizarrely Creepy Moments from the Mario Universe
It's a place where hitting a floating brick with your head and expecting money to come out is considered normal. These games are classics, so we don't even stop to think about the absurdity of what goes on in them. For something to be considered creepy within that context it would have to be pretty messed up. Like, for example ...
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, Peter File
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7 Memes That Went Viral Before The Internet Existed
In the very likely case that you're on the Internet right now, you already know what a "meme" is. But you may not realize that the concept -- a meaningless phrase, image or joke getting repeated endlessly for no reason at all -- predates the Internet generation by a long shot.
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8 Absurd Jokes That Predicted Real Life Events
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- By Simon Bower
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6 Songs That Were Decades Ahead of 'Groundbreaking' Music
The only thing that can explain songs like these? Time travel.
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- By M. Asher Cantrell
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CRACKED ROUND-UP: Emergency Transcript Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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6 Artists Whose Weird Fetishes Defined Pop Culture
Atists have been flaunting their bizarre fixations in our faces for years but have never been called out on them. Until now.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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