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9 Ridiculous Cooking Myths You Probably Believe
You're not a master chef by any means, but you still know a few basic food truths, right? Well guess what: You're wrong about those, too.
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- By Jeff Hanula
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2919 6 Small Math Errors That Caused Huge Disasters
If there are any children reading this, there's really only one thing we want to tell you about adulthood: If you make one tiny mistake, people will die.
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- By Chris Radomile
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The 9 Most Badass Last Words Ever Uttered: Part 2
Hopefully history will remember us for our sick burns and ballsy braggadocio, even if it forgets everything else. It worked for these folks..
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- By Ian Cheesman, Dustin Koski
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5 Absurd Solutions to Huge Problems (That Actually Worked)
Who among us hasn't been asked by a teacher or a boss to think outside the box? It's all well and good when you're looking at a word problem on a Denny's application, not so much when you're staring down a problem with lives on the line.
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- By Adam Wears, Mohammed Shariff
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Cracked Round-Up: Stupid New Year Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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The 5 Most Annoying Things About Sports (To Non Sports Fans)
When you're not a sports fan, there's a double standard when it comes to ... well, just about everything.
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- By Stephen Cook
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The 6 Most Reckless Uses of Radioactive Material
Some people are, let's just say, a little more casual around nuclear material than the rest of us. And by people we mean governments, corporations and just random, everyday dumbasses.
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- By Eric Yosomono, Dustin Koski, Evan V. Symon
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The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Modern Ghost Towns
Man's vision constantly exceeds his reach. It is our curse to dream bigger than our meager hands can build. So for every Hoover Dam or Empire State Building that gets built, there are 10 projects that were simply too unfeasible to see to completion. And for each of those 10, there are 10 MORE that seemed too unfeasible, but someone decided that tha
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- By Xavier Jackson
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10 Old Toys That Made Sense In Their Era (And Nowhere Else)
Remember that toy that you just had to have because it was based on something wildly popular? And then it turned out to really, really suck? It turns out that's been happening as long as companies have been mass-producing toys.
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- By Tracy V., T.D. Woodward
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8 Gratuitously Violent Horror Movie Scenes (from the Bible)
More than just occasionally, people in the bible are killed in ways so innovative and gruesome that they could've been filmed as a scene in a slasher movie. And, as we'll show you, some have done exactly that.
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- By Matt Cramer
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Cracked Round-Up: Valentine's Day Edition (?)
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- By CRACKED Staff
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7 Bizarre Easter Eggs Hidden in Great Works of Art
We tend to think of classic art as being all dignified and serious, if perhaps a little stuffy. But that's only because we're not looking closely enough.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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4 Evolutionary Explanations for Modern Annoyances
At one point each of these social mechanisms was probably the glue that held civilizations together, but we've come a long way since then and now they're just sort of annoying.
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- By Joe Donatelli
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The 6 Most Baffling Serial Crimes
Criminals aren't hard to figure out. Ask any cop. The guy who broke into your car wasn't a mastermind, he was probably looking for something he could sell to buy meth. Still, the world of law enforcement does have its confounding mysteries.
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- By Lorra Jacks
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5 Characters Who Totally Missed the Moral of Their Own Movie
It's so weird when, on occasion, the good guys of the film seem to let the obvious moral that they themselves helped establish whiff by them as they do EXACTLY what they just taught us to never do.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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