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5 Hallmarks of Bad Parenting That Are Actually Good for Kids
Kids who grew up in the '90s couldn't leave the house without a speech on stranger danger and an extra dose of Flintstones vitamins. But it turns out there are some things that lazy/negligent parents kind of got right.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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7 Random Things You Won't Believe Are Shortening Your Life
Apparently, real longevity indicators are things you probably wouldn't guess in a hundred years (even if you managed to live that long).
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- By Michael Corvinus
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5 Seemingly Random Factors That Control Your Memory
Our old friend science has tracked down some of the completely random things that decide whether or not your memory will choose to function at a particular moment. Thanks, science.
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- By Eddie Rodriguez
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The 8 Most Incredible Things Slapped Together in a Day
It's amazing what humanity can accomplish in a moment's notice.
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- By Christina H
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7 Artists Who Secretly Made Your Favorite Movies
If you've ever bothered to stick around through the scroll, you may have realized that some of the same names keep popping up in all your favorite movies, and they aren't next to jobs like 'director' or 'Indiana Jones.' In fact, you've probably been a diehard fan of the following seven people your entire life without ever realizing it.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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6 Amazing Rich Kid Versions of the Toys You Grew Up With
It's hard not to wish you could, just once, re-live childhood as that rich kid who had everything. If by some sorcery that should ever occur, we recommend these.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Species You Won't Believe Are Related
Imagine you're an animal, attending your evolutionary family reunion. You might be surprised to find out how remarkably similar it is to your last family reunion: You spend the day trying to avoid 'that guy' that no one wants to admit you're related to, while the rest of your relatives randomly eat each other. This article is for the 'that guys.'
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- By Michael Vozniak
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Cracked Round-Up: A Message from Cracked's Legal Department
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- By CRACKED Staff
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7 Old People Who Gave Retirement the Finger
These old people not only have more ambition than most of us despite being well past their prime, but they're also doing jobs most of us wouldn't even begin to consider.
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- By Erik Germ
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5 Terrifying Killers (That Turned Out to be Mass Panics)
Humans are hard-wired to function in groups. But it's a double-edged sword -- it takes a lot of us to build a city, but as anyone who has ever witnessed a riot can attest, people's ability to act like idiots also multiplies in crowds. And this phenomenon can manifest itself in really weird and even fatal ways.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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The 8 Most Mind Blowing Disguises in Nature
Let's face it, we all hate nature to varying degrees and for our own reasons. But surely nothing inspires loathing of the animal kingdom like the fact that its creatures are constantly trying to trick us.
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- By Monte Richard, E. Reid Ross
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The 5 Most Badass Tales of Wartime Survival
Every single person on this list puts Bear Grylls' tales of 'badassery' to shame
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- By Chris J.
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The 9 Most Baffling Monuments to Great People
The great monuments tend to also be simple -- Abe Lincoln's is just him sitting in a chair, Mount Rushmore is just a bunch of giant heads. But some sculptors decide to get creative, to create a memorial that will really blow people's minds. The results are often the stuff of nightmares.
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- By Chris Zeigler
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The 5 Most Insulting Ways Products Are Advertised to Men
Just as ads in the 1950s assumed that all women were housewives desperate for new ways to starch their husbands' shirts, advertisers today demonstrate an extremely low opinion of their male customers.
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- By Colin Murdock, Aren Wilborn
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The 9 Most Insane Board Games of All Time
We realize that advertising should be taken with a whole shaker of salt, especially when it comes to toys, where there's a long history of making products look better than they are (as multiple generations of Sea Monkeys owners can testify). These board game boxes, though, go beyond deceptive advertising and right into the realm of 'See, this is wh
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- By Tracy V.
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