Cracked Archive
5 Bizarre Ways Online Gaming Is Affecting the Real World
It turns out that while you're going around innocently shooting zombies or running people over in colorful virtual worlds, other people are abusing the same games to plan actual murders, carry out Ponzi schemes, or finance kinky virtual red-light districts.
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- By Matt Culkin, Jack Hall
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5 Hilarious Reasons Publishers Rejected Classic Best-Sellers
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- By Aren Wilborn
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The 7 Most Bizarre Objects to Ever Fall from the Sky
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- By Kelly Stone
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8 Actors Who Look the Same on Every Movie Poster (Part 3)
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- By J.F. Sargent, Kier Harris, Isaac Cabe
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
6 Famous Things From History That Didn't Actually Exist
We've really botched some history in the name of so-so television.
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- By Matt Martin, Paige Turner
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6 Terrifying Mutations With Awesome Historical Explanations
Atavism: the means by which suddenly any creature -- humans included -- can sprout physical traits that they thought they had abandoned millennia ago.
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- By David Decher
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6 Movie Characters You Didn't Know Died Horrible Deaths
For every graphic movie death that graces our screens in glorious Technicolor, there's an even more gruesome one that happens just outside of frame.
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- By Davidb Marchetti, J.F. Sargent
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6 People Who Took Overprotective Parenting Way Too Far
Really, is it so wrong to love your child so much? Is there really such a thing as taking parenting too far? (It is!)
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- By Chris Fox
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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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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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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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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 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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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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