Science & History

20 Boss People Not Everybody Knows (But Should)

Ever wonder why we have flushing toilets? Or who decided to start throwing naked wangs and boobs in movies?

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By Cracked Plasticians

Published

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.

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By Evan V. Symon , Matthew Moffitt

Published

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.

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By Jacopo della Quercia

Published

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 ...

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By Cracked Plasticians

Published

December 30, 2013

5 Weird Psychological Dangers of Giving People Gifts

The whole gift-exchange scenario is a lose-lose situation. Science has spent a surprising amount of time studying it an everything you thought you knew is wrong.

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By Daniel Nest, Alan Boyle

Published

December 23, 2013

5 Basic Things You Won't Believe Science Can't Explain

In school you learned a few scientific concepts that prepared you for a lifetime of understanding. And we're about to take that away from you.

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By Himanshu Sharma

Published

December 17, 2013

6 Insanely Colored Versions of Normally Boring Animals

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By Nick J.

Published

December 15, 2013

6 Substances That Wipe Their Ass With the Laws of Physics

It's worth reiterating that modern geniuses are more than capable of mooning physics with the twin butt-cheeks of innovation and technology.

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By Aatif Zubair

Published

December 15, 2013

5 Ways We're Designing Robots to Be Total Assholes

We have hit that theoretical point in time when our machines become bigger dicks than we are.

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By Josh Hrala

Published

December 08, 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.

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By Robin Warder

Published

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.

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By Doron S.

Published

December 05, 2013