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7 Shockingly Dark Origins of Lovable Children's Characters
With just a little bit of digging, you can uncover all sorts of messed up crap that'll ruin all the things you used to love. So let's get started on doing that!
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- By Anthony Scibelli
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11 Celebrities Who Were Secretly Total Badasses
For these actors, being an action hero is turning it down a notch.
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- By Kristi Harrison, Jacopo della Quercia
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5 People Who Started Religions Just to Get Laid
Sometimes, joining a cult means finding yourself attached at the junk to a creepy weirdo who couldn't figure out a less shameless way to get laid.
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- By Eric Yosomono
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The Beginning of a Very Confusing Adolescence [COMIC]
Kid's going to make for a terrible first boyfriend.
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- By Fatawesome .com
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5 Absurd Ways Comic Books Have Resurrected Dead Superheroes
Apparently, subtly bringing a character back to life just isn't in the cards for some writers.
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- By Diana McCallum
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6 Random Things (Other Than Drugs) That Reduce Pain
Your nearest drugstore is full of completely fake pain remedies, from shoe magnets to magical ground-up shark bones. But while these new age medicines are little more than placebos, science has found a whole lot of unexpected -- and downright weird -- ways you can control pain without ever swallowing a pill.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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CRACKED ROUND-UP: Finals Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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7 Modern Dictators Way Crazier Than You Thought Possible
History is loaded with power-hungry jerks who rule over their countries' fearful populations like the Predator in a laser tag match. Oftentimes these people are infamous not just for their cruelty, but also for their bafflingly insane and self-indulgent antics.
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- By Ethan Lou
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How to Keep It Together While High on Cold Medicine [COMIC]
You will need to know this at some point over the next couple of months, so listen up.
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- By Scott Meyer
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6 Video Game Heroes Made Useless By Supporting Characters
Just because you're the star of your very own video game doesn't automatically mean you deserve the lead role. In most cases, we wish we could control the far-better sidekick instead.
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- By Jason Iannone
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6 Insane Conspiracies Hiding Behind Non-Profit Groups
Behind many nonprofit groups are big-money interests trying to hijack your goodwill for their own, usually greedy, purposes.
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- By C. Coville, Nimby Smith
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