13 Interesting Facts (About Movies And More) To Tickle The Ol’ Grey Matter

Turns out, Star Wars would be less funny if Mark Hamill wasn’t so good at improv.

Authors: By Andrea Meno
Published: October 17, 2021
Comments: 17

5 Of The Most Badass Ways Cultures Used To Treat Their Dead

Dying can be a stylish, luxurious affair.

Authors: By Ivan Farkas
Published: October 18, 2021
Comments: 2

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11 Things That Are WAY Bigger Than You Realize

Size really does matter.

Authors: By Reba C
Published: October 17, 2021
Comments: 20

'This Is My Boomstick' - The Evolution Of One-Liners In Horror-Comedy

We think it’s safe to say that the subgenre has evolved into a more witty, deadpan, and comically sincere kind of humor.

Authors: By Zanandi Botes
Published: October 18, 2021
Comments: 0

The Most Recorded Artist Of All Time (Isn't Who We Thought)

It was 19th-century singer George W. Johnson, who made hundreds of recordings each day.

Authors: By Ryan Menezes
Published: October 18, 2021
Comments: 4

The Top 10 Cracked Posts Everyone Went Nuts Over Last Week

By:: Cracked Writers

May 31, 2015

Sometimes all you want is a big, creamy bowl of badassery. And last week you slurped up a one-man homeland-defending killing machine, a fierce kung fu lady-army out for vengeance, and an assortment of people who looked at a fellow human in distress and basically said, "Screw this. You're not offing yourself on my goddamn watch."

10 5 Real Life Soldiers Who Make Rambo Look Like a Pussy

The Soviet Army learned the hard way: Simo Hayha wasn't nothin to f@ck with.

Simo Hayha was a farmer with a limited military background who became known as The White Death to Russian soldiers during the 1939 invasion of Finla

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"Simo Hayha had a fairly boring life in Finland...But when the Soviet Union invaded his homeland in 1939, he decided he wanted to help his country. He figured the best way to stop the invasion was to grab his trusty rifle, a couple of cans of food and hide in a tree all day shooting Russians."

9 21 Sex Tips That Science Says Actually Work

They don't have to be pink socks, necessarily, but you've got the option.

Scientists in the Netherlands found that wearing SOCKS during SeX significantly increased the chancE of orgasms. Cold is a turn-off for both genders,

8 23 Movies That Put Insane Detail Into Stuff You Missed

We didn't know there was anything real in any of the Star Wars prequels.

CRACKEDCON Model maker Michael Lynch created this miniature set for Star Wars Episode I. To fill the stands, 450.000 Q-Tips were cut, painted, and ins

7 The 8 Most Badass Make-A-Wish Foundation Wishes

Leukemia-stricken, 6 year-old Enzo wanted to spend an afternoon with Ina Garten, The Barefoot Contessa. She wouldn't do it - for three years - until her feet were put to the fire. And when she finally called, Enzo had the perfect response.

"Enzo's wish simply involved meeting with the chef and cooking one of the Contessa's many French dishes with her. No big deal, right? She told the kid no."

6 8 Tiny Things That Stopped Suicides

We should all try to be a little more like Don Ritchie and Yukio Shige if we can. We're pretty sure they've saved so many lives they now qualify as doctors or saints.

CRAGKEDG Don Ritchie was the Angel of the Gap. Ritchie lived near a popular suicide spot in Australia. Instead of: moving awayh he decided to approa

"Even the Cracked forums have responded numerous times to posters thinking of ending it all, with the most cynical, goatse-posting, snarky assholes offering a listening ear or a shoulder to cry on, or sharing their own experiences from rock bottom."

5 6 Historic Acts of Revenge That Put 'Kill Bill' to Shame

Hell hath no fury like women underestimated.

Trung Trac and Trung Nhi were simple-living sisters in a small village sometime in first century Vietnam, who had been trained from childhood in marti

"he Han Chinese considered women to be pretty useless. So they didn't realize that Trac and Nhi had been schooled in badass martial arts since they were little girls and thus weren't prepared to take any of Confucius' shit."

4 5 Lessons All Movies Should Learn From 'Mad Max'

Turns out you can have awesome cars and pants-crapping explosions AND give a hoot about the characters. Whoda thunk it?

The Top 10 Cracked Posts Everyone Went Nuts Over Last Week

"She wants to rescue some sex slaves from the bastard child of Sweet Tooth the Clown and Darth Vader, and she's willing to take on a post-apocalyptic war party to do it. And despite what some random assholes on the Internet think, this isn't a problem with the story. It's the best part."