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5 Innocent Phrases With Surprisingly Dark Origins
Language often takes some pretty bizarre turns on the way to its modern usage. And sometimes a seemingly innocent phrase is the result of one supremely messed-up past.
- By Brenna Crotty
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- February 05, 2014
5 Presidents Who Were Total Badasses in Their Youth
As it turns out, many presidents spent their younger years going on Hollywood-worthy adventures through history, doling out Old West-style justice and opening casino bars in the South Pacific.
- By Gavin Jamieson
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- February 02, 2014
26 Hilariously Inaccurate Predictions About the Future
Crystal balls? More like Schweddy Balls.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- January 27, 2014
5 Famous Pieces of Presidential Trivia (That Are Total BS)
We cling to certain well-known tales that help us easily label and categorize our presidents. There's only one problem with these little nuggets of awesome: Not nearly all of them are true.
- By Alex Hanton
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- January 23, 2014
6 Legitimate Organizations That Secretly Act Like the Mafia
In every system at every level of society, you're bound to come across at least one group bent on exploiting you with puppy-punching ruthlessness.
- By A.C. Grimes
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- January 17, 2014
25 Subtle Changes That Ruin Dignified Historical Images
Image manipulation can be a lot of things: awful, malicious, or just downright deceiving. But it can also be fun. Really fun.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- January 12, 2014
4 Disasters That Couldn't Have Happened Anywhere Else
Sometimes geography itself becomes the Overlook Hotel of history.
- By Kristi Harrison
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- January 08, 2014
The 20 Most Amazing People You've Never Heard Of
Ever wonder why we have flushing toilets? Or who decided to start throwing naked wangs and boobs in movies?
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- January 06, 2014
5 Nobodies Who Stumbled into Wars and Kicked Everyone's Ass
No one pictures their sweet grandma strafing the border with an AK-47 in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, raining down death and destruction as epic as her homemade apple pie. But it does happen.
- By Evan V. Symon , Matthew Moffitt
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- January 05, 2014
6 True Stories From History Creepier Than Any Horror Movie
History books are full of PG-13 violence. Here are the directors' cuts.
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- December 30, 2013
The 23 Most Surprising (True) Facts About Awful People
Most of the time, what we find enthralling about terrible people are the ways they go belly up. Most of the time ...
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- December 30, 2013
5 Old News Stories the Media Pretended Were New This Year
If we'd just taken a few minutes to learn some history, none of these stories would have shocked us.
- By Kristi Harrison
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- December 24, 2013
17 Photographs from History That Would Explain Everything
Let's face it: For all our advancements and scientific discoveries, there's still a whole bunch of stuff we're completely clueless about.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- December 15, 2013
5 Wrongly Convicted People the Legal System Kept on Screwing
It's actually physically impossible for people in authority positions to admit they're wrong, which is why we get situations like these.
- By Robin Warder
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- December 06, 2013
5 Laws That Made Sense on Paper (And Disasters in Reality)
Government is somebody coming up with a plan that sounds great on paper, only to be hilariously thwarted by human nature within minutes of it passing.
- By Doron S.
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- December 05, 2013
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