Cracked Archive
5 Myths About the Revolutionary War Everyone Believes
Bloody, heroic and seasoned with all kinds of awesome, the entire eight-year period was dripping with fantastic stories and scrappy underdog moments. (Or was it?)
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- By J. Wisniewski
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5 Famous People You Didn't Know Have Real Mutant Powers
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- By Samuel Flashner
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5 Beloved Famous People With Creepy Secret Obsessions
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- By Jake Flores
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5 Things It Turns Out You Were Right to Hate About School
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- By Robert Evans
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
5 Shocking Scenes You Won't Believe Are in the Bible
If many of the most iconic features of Christianity aren't taking up space in the holy book, it makes one wonder just what, in fact, is in there.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Douglas A. McDonnell
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5 Horrific Disasters That Made Human Life Possible
Life as we know it was only able to form because the universe likes to slap us around every few billion years. It's a form of tough love.
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- By Sebastien Paquin
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5 Myths About Celebrity Deaths Everyone Believes
It turns out that some of the most famously juicy, ironic, or poetic deaths ever were nothing like they told you.
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- By Sammy Trujillo
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7 Amazing Movie Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't CGI
It seems some directors will go to insane lengths to avoid using CGI, seemingly just so they can point at the screen during the premiere and say 'yeah, a real guy totally did that.'
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- By David Christopher Bell, Karl Smallwood
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The 5 Weirdest Things That Can Cause You to Be More Racist
There are all sorts of random factors in your environment and biology that bring out your inner asshole. And sure enough, the science suggests that all manner of strange things trigger racist behavior.
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- By David Rose
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5 Amazing Advances That Are About to Make Hard Work Obsolete
You industrious types who take great joy in doing difficult tasks -- go clean your gutters. For the rest of our lazy brethren who are still reading this, probably from bed, we're here to tell you that the future is bright.
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- By Hamish MacDonald, Jeff Sloan
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The 6 Most Badass Ways Anyone Has Ever Escaped the Country
You didn't have to be crazy to attempt an escape from one of these places. But it sure as hell helped.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The 5 Creepiest Foreign Versions of Disney Fairy Tales
It seems these tellers put their own little twists on the tale. Their insane, gut-wrenching, nightmarish twists.
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- By Jeffrey Crawford
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5 Diabolical Ways Your Body Tricks You into Being Fat
We're not saying that willpower and mental fortitude don't play a role. We're just saying that even if your mind is in the right place, the deck is still stacked against you in a bunch of different ways.
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- By XJ Selman
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5 Shockingly Advanced Ancient Buildings That Shouldn't Exist
It turns out the engineers of times past were nothing to sneer at, and some of their accomplishments make ours seem slightly embarrassing.
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- By Eric Yosomono, Welldone Quibranza, Alaric Penname
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