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5 Bizarre Factors That Secretly Influence Your Opinions
In many ways, our opinions define us. And yet, every single day, scores of weird and seemingly insignificant things are twisting our preferences.
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- By Monte Richard, XJ Selman
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If The Hobbit Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times More Honest
RICHARD ARMITAGE: That does it, Manu, I'm challenging you! There's no way we'd do an entire movie without accomplishing SOME benchmark, so either YOU'RE gonna die, or I'M gonna die, or at least SOMEONE will ACTUALLY ACHIEVE SOMETHING!
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- By The Editing Room
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5 Ways You Can Improve the World With Almost No Effort
Good news: For absolutely no effort or cost whatsoever, you can make profound differences in the world.
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- By Marshall Lemon
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The 6 Dumbest Mistakes of Supposedly Smart Movie Characters
Some of these characters, in the midst of using their wits to topple complicated obstacles, manage to inexplicably overlook some painfully obvious things that come back to bite them directly on their brilliant asses.
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- By Karl Smallwood, Alex Race, T.D. Woodward
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5 Real Medical Treatments That Seem More Like Sick Pranks
Sometimes the craziest ideas have science on their side, so don't be so quick to call your doctor a quack if he or she recommends these.
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- By Eddie Rodriguez, Aatif Zubair
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5 Facts That Will Change How You Picture Famous Places
Just like all those after-school specials tried to warn you, stereotyping isn't always the best practice, and some of our most common conceptions of famous places are due for a serious tweak.
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- By Charlie Jones
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- 1878
6 Underrated Predators With Mind-Blowing Abilities
Obviously, you don't stand a chance in the wild -- not when animals like these are out there murdering each other with what might as well be magic powers.
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- By Monte Richard, Rich Solomon, Austin Black
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6 Ways Your Brain Is Sabotaging Your Sex Life
It's true -- our own psychology is constantly working against us. Our heads are full of destructive and downright wrong ideas that we just can't get past, due to biology, upbringing, or both.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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The 6 Least Solemn Funerals Around the World
The whole point of a funeral is to help people go through the grieving process -- but everyone grieves differently, and some do it ridiculously.
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- By Richy Craven, E. Reid Ross, Agneeth Mazumdar
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The 6 Greatest Acts of Trolling in the History of Science
Science has seen some epic trolling over the years, so much so that it at times makes 4chan look like a chamber of reasoned discourse.
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- By Steve Shapiro, Andrew Bensley
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- 1002
Cracked Round-Up: Medicinal Crack Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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6 Insane Disney Comics You Won't Believe Are Real
Is it still amazing to see that there was a time when Disney had no problem depicting Mickey Mouse getting venereal diseases and attempting shotgun suicide? You bet!
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- By Drew Anderson
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The 6 Most Bizarre Things Ever Discovered in Space
Humanity has been looking out into space for thousands of years, and the most important thing we've discovered over that time is that everything is crazy weird out there.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Micah Kolding
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- 1555