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Cracked Round-Up: Coyote Edition
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5 Old Wives' Tales About Health (Confirmed by Science)
You might be surprised to find out that some of that motherly health advice that sounds suspiciously like superstitious nonsense now wasn't so made up after all.
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- By R. Jason Benson
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5 Little-Known Sequels That Ruined Iconic Stories
These are the sequels that seem like they were written by someone whose only knowledge of the original came from overhearing a drunk hobo explain the plot an hour before their assignment was due.
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- By Anthony Scibelli
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5 Innocent Things That Science Says Make People Hate You
Your many glaring personality flaws aside, sometimes the deck is just plain stacked against you for reasons you would never expect
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- By XJ Selman
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The 5 Most Badass Movie Scenes That Happened in Real Life
Sometimes, real life does in fact resemble a Michael Bay movie, only minus the giant robots (usually).
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- By Xavier Jackson
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6 Simple Products That Advertisers Pretend Are Complicated
How do you make people buy your mundane product instead of your competitor's? With pure BS, of course.
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- By Mark Hill
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5 Horribly Misguided Attempts at Teaching Lessons Creatively
It turns out that the line between 'fun new learning experience' and 'lifelong trauma' is razor thin.
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- By Scott Pearson
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5 Insane 'What If' Scenarios That Almost Changed Everything
For every terrible tragedy history has handed us, there is an infinitely long list of disasters that we narrowly missed.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 5 Weirdest Things That Influence Your Dreams
Science is just beginning to understand the factors that control your dreams, but what we've discovered so far is weird as hell.
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- By S Peter Davis
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The 5 Craziest Ways Famous Actors Got Into Character
Actors are crazy, yes, but these actors adopted a special kind of "woo-hoo" and turned it into genius.
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- By Carl Hoff
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Cracked Round-Up: Our 2013 Resolution Edition
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5 Reasons George Washington Was Either Lucky or a Wizard
The first real president of the United States was a Highlander. He thwarted death, fell into the presidency, and succeeded only by the most fortuitous of flukes.
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- By W. Stinnett
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6 Important Things You Won't Believe Were Invented in Comics
It turns out comics have contributed a surprising number of enduring words, phrases, and traditions to modern society.
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- By Drew Anderson
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5 Shocking Side Effects of Foods You Eat Every Day
Food can and absolutely will affect you in plenty of other ways besides just filling your stomach. And it keeps getting weirder.
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- By XJ Selman
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11 Old War Photographs You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
When you start sifting through rare photos of secret projects and behind-the-scenes shenanigans that didn't make into the history books, you get lots of pictures that just look downright fake.
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- By Eric Yosomono
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