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5 Bizarre Ways the Human Brain Is Dooming the Economy
When we try to wrap our hunter-gatherer brains around concepts like student loan interest rates and year-end bonuses, it starts misfiring in all sorts of ridiculous ways.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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22 Laws That Don't Seem Possible (But Are)
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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15 True Stories That Pretty Much Say 'Karma'
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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33 Pop Culture Ridiculous Controversies
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
5 Scary Myths You Probably Believe About the Economy
Spoiler alert: nobody can actually predict the economy.
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- By Marcus O'Reilly
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20 Smile-Inducing Facts
Turns out the world isn't completely full of doom and gloom.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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6 Products in Your Bathroom You Won't Believe Don't Work
You're going to feel a bit icky after this article.
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- By Elisabeth Fu
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5 Clearly Fake News Stories The Media Told You Were True
Apparently, The media doesn't always have time for such time-consuming practices as 'fact checking' and 'thinking about this for a moment to work out if it sounds idiotic.'
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- By Danny Gallagher, Kier Harris
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We Want to Pay You to Write for Us
Let's get right to it: We will pay you to write things for us even if you have never written anything for anybody before.
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- By CRACKED Staff
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5 Clearly Fake News Stories That Fooled the Media
When every news outlet feels like it has to break stories before Twitter has the chance, a lot of corners get cut. Specifically, the corner called 'fact checking.'
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- By Danny Gallagher
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The 6 Most Hilariously Stupid Criminal Excuses of All Time
If making fun of stupid criminals is a crime, then we plead guilty. We'll even do it in some laughably incompetent way so that we can become a list entry in one of our own articles.
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- By Tracy V.
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The 25 Most Popular Cracked.com Articles of 2011
The views have been tallied. The critics have been ignored. Nothing but the hits: the 25 most crazy popular articles we put up this year.
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- By Cracked Plasticians, CRACKED Staff
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How To Be a Person: A Guide to Life for the Recent Graduate
Greetings, graduating classes of 2011! Congratulations on accomplishing all you have accomplished to get here, and pre-congratulations on all the accomplishments you will surely accomplish in your accomplishful futures.
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- By Lindy West
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St. Patrick vs Guy Celebrating St. Patrick's Day [CHART]
People give Christmas a lot of heat for forgetting what the holiday REALLY is all about. But when it comes to forgetting stuff, no holiday can match up with Saint Patrick's Day.
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- By Matt Gallagher
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The 5 Craziest Exploits of the World's Shadiest Politician
Silvio Berlusconi basically Scrooge McDuck but wears pants less often. He's spent nine years running Italy like a frat house on double-secret probation.
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- By Luke McKinney
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