Cracked Archive - Celebrities
6 Famous People With Secret (Eerily Opposite) Family Members
The fact that Ben Franklin had an illegitimate son wasn't even the most awkward conversation had at the Franklin family dinner table.
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- By Luke John Smith
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431 6 Feel-Good Stories From 2015 That Had Horrible Endings
It pains us to inform you that all of those silly and life-affirming Internet stories that distracted from civilization's inexorable march into the void were just the E. coli icing on 2015's cake of turds.
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- By Jim Avery
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5 Huge Celebrities With Insane Secret Backstories
Some celebrities take the scenic route to stardom, and wind up going down some strange back roads.
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- By B.T. Doran, Abraham Mireles, E.M. Caris, Tara Marie
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5 Great Actors With Dumb Early Roles They Hope We Forgot
In 1982, a promising young actor named Tom Hanks nailed his first movie role: a made-for-TV drama about the evils of tabletop RPGs.
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- By Robin Warder
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6 WTF Origin Stories Behind Famous Pop-Culture Names
In a world where people will spend hours and hours of time coming up with the perfect name, these people just blindly stumbled into something iconic.
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- By B.T. Doran
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- 294
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5 Iconic Works Of Genius Crapped Out To Prove A Petty Point
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- By B.T. Doran
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- 354
5 Beloved Celebrities With Under-Reported Awful Sides
It turns out, the screaming nightmare of a stage persona is only covering up the social skills of a coked-up toddler.
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- By Isaac Cabe
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The 13 Worst Celebrity Halloween Costumes Ever Made
The masquerade merchants of the Internet have been putting all their elbow grease into their celebrity costumes this October. So let us behold their cornucopia of head-turning disguises.
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- By Michael Hossey
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6 Celebrities Who Got Really Depressing Since You Saw Them
Welcome to Bummer City. Population: 6 Sad, Sad Celebrities.
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- By Jim Avery
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8 Famous People That History Got Almost Exactly Wrong
Within the punk rock! Ramones, there was some serious love for Ronald Reagan, The NRA, and a belief that Richard Nixon got a raw deal.
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- By Amanda Mannen, Luke John Smith
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Prince Could Ball! 7 Unexpected Pre-Fame Lives (RIP Prince)
Sometimes, the pre-fame jobs of celebrities are so insane they deserve to be recorded in a golden history book and preserved for all time.
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- By Aaron Short
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- 267
6 Myths About Crime You Believe Thanks To Hollywood
There are still some aspects of crime that are romanticized, so we're going to go ahead and clear up those misconceptions.
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- By Chris Radomile
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- 557
7 Celebrity Pranks That Backfired Horrifically
Pranks are supposed to be lighthearted jokes you play on friends. Of course, it should be no surprise that people take them to psychotic levels.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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The 6 Most Horrifying Real Events Ever Reenacted For Movies
Sometimes actors don't have to pretend.
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- By Orrin R. K., Ian Ury, Cathal McGuigan, Tara Marie
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- 560
7 Famous People Who Secretly Have Shockingly Bad Resumes
Creating anything is hit and miss -- for every amazing work, that same artist likely has ten pieces of crap that they'd happily see blasted into the Sun.
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- By Micky McMichaelson
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- 397
