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6 Things You Won't Believe Were Built by a Single Person
Sometimes unlimited imagination is paired with both inspiration and obsession, and this sexy three-way of abstract concepts gives us some truly awesome feats.
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- By Ricardo Rivera
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448 The 5 Most Badass Ways People Escaped from Slavery
In real life, not only did slaves frequently escape, but they often did it without help from free whites, and without murdering several hundred people.
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- By Alex Hanton
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5 Insane Crimes Committed by Cops in Charge of Solving Them
They may be horrible people, but you've got to admire the balls it takes to pull off stunts like these.
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- By Will Millar
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5 Mind-Blowing Ways People Solved Unsolvable Cold Cases
Sometimes, even the coldest of cases get solved decades later, just out of the damned blue, in the strangest ways possible.
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- By Matthew Moffitt
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6 Games That Put Insane Detail Into Stuff You Didn't Notice
These are the amazing little flourishes that simultaneously wow us with their obsessive compulsion and provide a powerful rejoinder to the argument that soaring game budgets are both necessary and entirely justified.
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- By Karl Smallwood
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6 Unresolved Cliffhangers That Ruined Great TV Shows
Let's take a moment to sympathize with the cult followings of these shows who will never know how their stories turned out.
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- By Henrik Magnusson
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6 Insanely Reckless Media Accusations That Ruined Lives
You would think the birth of the Information Age and greater access to instant fact checking would make cases like these more rare. You would be wrong.
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- By Alex Hanton, Eric Yosomono, N. Christie
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5 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About Ancient Civilizations
Much of what we know about ancient Greece and Rome tends to come from films and TV. And, well, much of what we know is plain wrong.
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- By J. Wisniewski
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Cracked Round-Up: Soft Drugs Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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5 Crimes That Only Cause Endless Unanswered Questions
Some thieves like to take the road less traveled, pulling off daring heists that baffle even the greatest detectives.
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- By Marco Caruso, Jordan Trabue
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The 5 Most Impressively Convoluted Traps Set by Animals
Some animals refuse to play by the rules.
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- By Monte Richard, Andrew Heaton
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5 Shockingly Crazy Ideas Behind Huge Scientific Discoveries
Some of the most important innovators in history were just as interested in voodoo as they were in science, and often stumbled across their greatest works by accident.
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- By Salla Maaria
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7 Filthy Jokes You Didn't Notice in Shakespeare
What most non-English majors don't realize is that under Shakespeare's flowery language and incomprehensible old-timey wordplay is a whole lot of sly references to boners, anal sex, masturbation, and much worse.
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- By Grace McCarthy
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5 Surprising Upsides of Horrible Natural Disasters
Just occasionally, natural disasters can have surprising upsides. Here are a few cases where the universe's fury has actually worked out pretty well for some of the people involved.
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- By Alex Hanton, Micah Duke
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5 Popular Medications You Won't Believe Mess With Your Brain
If you want to terrify yourself, go into your medicine cabinet and read all of the really weird side effects at the bottom of the label.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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