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5 Movies That Accidentally Killed Innocent Characters
Occasionally, a movie chooses to kill completely innocent characters in the most horrible way possible for no discernible reason.
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- By Mohammed Shariff
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6 Mind-Blowing Ways Poop Created the Modern World
We here at Cracked take pride in our research department's ability to make as many poop jokes in a 2,000-word article as is humanly possible. Especially when it's about poop.
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- By Mohammed Shariff
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The 7 Worst Sex Lives in the Animal Kingdom
As it turns out in the animal kingdom, for one gender, sex is the only reason they're alive; for the other, it's a terrifying, painful nightmare.
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- By Brittany Fain, Jack Relf
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Harry Potter vs. Lord of the Rings: The Final Showdown
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- By Jeremy Kaplowitz
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Cracked Round-Up: A Message to New Graduates
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- By CRACKED Staff
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The 6 Worst Hiding Places in the History of Crime
We have to admit: We love us a good 'dumb criminal' story -- which is we're going to take a moment to celebrate these idiots.
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- By R. Barr
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6 Awful Jobs That Must Exist in Video Game Universes
A lot of mail flows in and out of the video game world. Luckily, Avery Edison is there to catch it.
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- By Avery Edison
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5 People From History Who Were Absurdly Hard to Kill
As talents go, being hard to kill is not a bad one to have.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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6 Insect Predators That Go Out of Their Way to Be Evil
You might think of insects as gross or scary, but you probably don't think of them as evil. But, upon closer inspection, we actually think they are.
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- By Jonathan Wojcik
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6 Terrifying New Creatures Science Just Discovered
While we at Cracked like to regularly terrify our readers with tales of all the frightening creatures we share the planet with, we should always keep one thing in mind: Nature is always finding ways to top itself.
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- By CRACKED Staff, Elsa Moriarty
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6 Ridiculous First Drafts of Famous Movie Monsters
It's hard to imagine the Predator or Jabba the Hutt as anything other than the iconic beasts we know and love. But they and others evolved from ideas that at the concept stage were very, very different. And very, very stupid.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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7 Deadly Things You Won't Believe Most People Survive
Sometimes the things that seem deadliest aren't so much deadly as they are inconvenient.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Ridiculous Cold War Myths You Learned in History Class
During the Cold War there were good guys and bad guys. And it was all bullshit
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Insane Attempts to Communicate With the Future
Time travel is probably not going to happen. But that's doesn't mean we can't at least communicate with the distant future. With nothing more than a message to send and a ludicrous amount of funding, there are all sorts of projects to preserve messages for your great-great-(great-great-great...) grandchildren.
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- By R. Jason Benson
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The 5 Saddest Attempts to Take Over a Country
When we hear about a rebellion in Egypt or Libya or elsewhere, we instinctively want to root for the scrappy kids trying to fight back against The Man. Of course, a lot of coup attempts aren't all that inspirational. Some, in fact, border on slapstick comedy.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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- 473