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5 Aerial Battles That Put 'Top Gun' To Shame
The most badass things ever done in, or to, a fighter jet.
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- By Xavier Jackson
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6 Companies That Rigged The Game (And Changed the World)
Sometimes when you see this kind of behind-the-scenes scheming, you do have to kind of admire it. Not approve of it, mind you -- just appreciate the kind of balls it takes to do it.
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- By Garrett Moll
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The 6 Deadliest Animals Too Adorable to Run Away From
Mother Nature's favorite gag is giving vicious predators the bodies of harmless fuzzballs. This is a continuation of our duty to make sure you don't judge an animal's lethality by its appearance.
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- By Tom Hohle
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6 Mind-Blowing Ways Genetic Engineering Might Save Your Life
Genetic engineering scares a lot of people, partly because we love making sci-fi movies and video games starring walking humanoid horrors that resulted from experiments gone wrong. And, while the idea of something like growing a human heart in a sheep's body just seems wrong somehow, it probably seems less wrong to the person who actually needs a h
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- By Jesse Clark
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6 Weird Fashions From History (With Weirder Explanations)
If you intend to do any traveling in a time machine, you'd better invest a whole lot of money in costumes. After all, people in the past looked weird. Why the hell did they, for instance, wear giant white wigs everywhere?
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- By Eric Yosomono
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5 Video Game Movie Adaptations (That Missed the Point)
Video games based on movies are almost universally terrible, we all know that. But sometimes they go beyond just being terrible video games and actually manage to completely undermine the entire point of the property they're adapting.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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5 Ridiculous Secrets Only Two Living People Know: Part 2
Here are five more things you will never learn in your lifetime -- unless you happen to be one of the only two people on the planet who already know them.
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- By Kathy Benjamin, M. Asher Cantrell
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5 Scientific Reasons Your Idea of Happiness Is Wrong
Our two favorite subjects at Cracked are the elusive concept of human happiness and Batman. This article is about the first one.
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- By Kimmy Dee
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6 Famously Terrible Movies That Were Almost Awesome
Lots of bad movies looked like good movies in the early stages. It takes a whole bunch of people to make a movie, and often the finished product is only as good as its shittiest element. That messy process is how we wound up with ...
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 5 Biggest Disasters in the History of Marketing Ideas
Sometimes companies screw up so badly that you wonder if they, like us, are just making it all up as they go along. How else do you explain these things?
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- By Evan V. Symon
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6 Ways Bacteria Will Prevent the Apocalypse
There are some strains of bacteria that not only can perform massive, superhero-level feats, but are probably going to be what stands between us and an apocalyptic future.
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- By Kristi Harrison, Tom Hohle
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The 5 Most Depraved Sex Scenes from Important Cultural Myths
If you've spent time studying history at all, you probably already know that depraved sex acts are to religion as rock star groupies from the '70s are to depraved sex acts. In other words, they go hand in hand. Or hand in some other body part, depending on who we're talking about.
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- By Jim Yew
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Cracked Round-Up: Canada Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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6 Hilarious Ways Al-Qaeda Is Going Corporate
The capture of Osama bin Laden revealed more than just the unmitigated badassery of Navy Seals. It also exposed how little we knew about the jihad lifestyle. Apparently, his little club had gone corporate
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- By Drew Miller
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8 WTF Aircraft Designs That Actually Caught Air
Aircraft designers can think outside the box just like everybody else. And what's most surprising of all is that all of the insane designs herein actually flew, with varying degrees of success.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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- 296