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8 Ordinary Photos Hiding Mind-Blowing Details
Sometimes a photo that looks completely boring and mundane at first glance can reveal mind-blowing details once you bother to take a closer look at it. Like two visible areolas.
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- By Eric Yosomono, Xavier Jackson, Curren Mcdowell, Alaric Penname
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The 6 Most Spectacularly Failed Attempts to Look Cool
No one likes a showoff. Not even fate, apparently -- because every once in a while it sees fit to prick someone's inflated ego balloon with its embarrassment needle, resulting in a spectacular backfire like ...
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- By Chris Fox
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5 Hilariously Low-Tech Weapons Against Dangerous Animals
Even in this advanced age of iPads and handjob robots (they have those, right?), mankind is still fighting a battle against nature.
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- By Monte Richard
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Cracked Round-Up: Democragasm Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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The 7 Most Insane Things Done in the Name of Love
No matter how much you love your significant other, you've probably never crossed the line from crazy romantic to crazy insane. We can't say the same thing about these guys.
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- By Eddie Rodriguez, Jamie Flexman
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5 Awesome Movie Robots with Inexcusable Design Flaws
Movie robots can think and love and perform amazing feats, and every kid wants one. Yet if they were built and sold by a real company, they'd be yanked from the market within minutes due to their glaring design oversights.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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6 Iconic Movie Scenes That Happened by Accident
Like in any job, accidents tend to happen when they're shooting a movie ... and sometimes those accidents turn out to be far better than what the director originally had in mind and are left in the film.
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- By Sean Warhurst, Dennis Fulton
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5 Weird Directions Human Evolution Could Have Taken
As humans, we pretty much rode on dumb luck to the top of the world.
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- By Dawn Morrow, J.F. Sargent
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5 Insane Farm Secrets Behind the Food on Your Grocery List
Nobody wants to know where their food comes from. Still, it's worth paying attention to, because some of what's going on behind the scenes is downright weird.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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The 8 Most Excessively Disturbing Public Health Campaigns
These public health campaigns are just like regular advertisements, except that instead of selling McRibs, they're promoting awareness for a cause in the most terrifying way possible.
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- By Scott Pearson
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8 Insane Vehicles You Won't Believe Are Street Legal
As long as there are wheels to spin and jet engines to slap on things that should not have jet engines, mankind's irrepressible need to go ungodly speeds while looking completely ludicrous shall not be sated.
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- By Robert Brockway, Matt Machmuller
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8 Election Myths You Probably Believe
Some of what we hate most about the American democratic process aren't flaws at all -- they're actually what make the whole thing tick.
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- By Robert Evans, Kristi Harrison, Jim Avery, Jared Whitley
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5 Hidden Practical Benefits Behind Common Religious Rituals
Some of these traditions came from a time when they afforded real practical benefits, and not just because people decided to do whatever a book told them to do.
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- By Eric Yosomono, Patrick McCarty
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7 True Stories of Animals Rescuing People from Certain Death
Apparently, lions, gorillas and even whales throwing themselves in harm's way to save some helpless human.
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- By Jeffrey Crawford
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The 5 Most Terrifying Rites of Passage from Around the World
There are some cultures out there that don't consider puberty a real rite of passage unless it involves something so gruesome that most of us wouldn't do it as adults.
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- By Richy Craven, Luv Sheth
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