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6 Military Units Whose Training Would Traumatize Rambo
The sergeant from Full Metal Jacket wouldn't even yell at these guys.
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- By Adam Wears, Karl Smallwood
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6 Ways Your Sense of Smell Is Secretly Controlling Your Mind
Apparently, the sense of smell can give you powers that would make Professor X jealous.
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- By C. Coville
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5 Absurdly Expensive Pieces of Junk Food
There is an entire industry catering to rich people who still have minimum wage tastes. But obviously, these'll cost your gas money ... for a couple months (or years).
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- By Matthew Soileau
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How to Prevent the End of the World [COMIC]
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- By Scott Meyer
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Cracked Round-Up: Writer's Block Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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5 Inexplicably Horrifying Episodes of Classic Comedies
These are the episodes that scarred an entire generation.
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- By Nick Nafpliotis
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The 7 Creepiest Old School Robots
Robots are terrifying, we all know that. And the creepily advanced ones have been around forever.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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How Stress Is Killing You [CHART]
Your body isn't good at dealing with stress. Here's why ...
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- By John Larwood
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8 Things You Won't Believe Can Be Hacked
If movies are to be believed, hackers are mostly kept busy kickflipping over the pentagon before sleeping in Mom's basement. But neither assumption is true.
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- By Colin Murdock
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6 Mind-Blowing Ways Zombies and Vampires Explain America
Horror movies play off of the social anxieties of the times. And who makes us anxious the most? The highest political leader in the land, of course.
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- By S Peter Davis
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5 Major Cities That Are Going to Be Destroyed
'Why don't they move?' is a common question after a recurring natural disaster. Chances are that you may be in the same boat.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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5 Bizarre Dark Sides to Modern Orchestras
What do has-been rockers and orchestra players have in common? Drugs, horrific injuries and low pay, of course.
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- By Lillian Marx
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The 10 Greatest Uses of Trash Talk in the History of War
History records some badass trash talk that would put Schwarzenegger to shame, some spoken in dire circumstances. Of course, it takes a certain type of badass.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Ways the Invention of Pants Shaped the Modern World
What would you say is the single biggest source or symbol of your strength and power as an individual? The answer is easy: just look down. We're talking, of course, about your pants.
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- By Alexia Franklin
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6 Terrifying Sci-Fi Predictions (About the Year 1997)
According to a lot of science fiction movies, comics and TV shows, 1997 was the single most eventful year in the history mankind. Why did they all pick 1997? Who knows? They certainly didn't anticipate the Spice Girls.
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- By Jim Ciscell
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- 570