Science & History

40 Deceptive Little Myths and Misconceptions That Tried to Make Fools of Us All
These lies posing as truths almost got us!
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- By Cracked Writers, Jay Wells L'Ecuyer
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Why the Ampersand Looks Like That
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Toys Someone Got Trampled Over
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- By Eli Yudin
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59 Funny Tweets About Mental Health to Bring to Your Therapist
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- By Ian Garner
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
5 Babies Whose Existence Defies Natural Laws
Hey, good news. We can make a baby using a corpse
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- By Ryan Menezes
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40 Breathtaking Statistics That’ll Have You Begging for CPR From the Nearest Mouth on This Subway Car
List instructions: Read a stat, catch your breath, repeat
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- By Jay Wells L'Ecuyer, Cracked Writers
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35 Conspiracy Theories That Even Skeptics Believe
‘I’m onto you, hot dog mafia’
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- By Ian Garner
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5 Fashion Trends Worn By Animals
Animals are smarter than we give them credit for
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- By Amanda Mannen
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21 Revolutionary Ideas That Sound Dumb at First
A game about Italian plumbers who stomp on turtles doesn’t sound great. But it is
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Weirdest Things Hate Groups Tried to Co-Opt
John Carpenter just wants to eat popsicles and not bother anybody
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- By Amanda Mannen
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12 German Words for Highly Specific Feelings
Which one is ‘thinking you’re pulling off a fedora when you’re not’?
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- By Eli Yudin
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45 Bits of Historical Trivia To Storm the Beaches of Your Corpus Callosum
We picked up all the things that went down
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- By Jay Wells L'Ecuyer, Cracked Writers
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The Real War on Christmas: When Merriment Was Illegal in America
There was, at one point, a war on Christmas… waged by Christians
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Concerts That Ended in Disaster
Nobody’s waiting for an encore here
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- By Eli Yudin
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Five Real-Life Historical Scrooges
For as long as we’ve honored Baby Jesus by politely avoiding any acknowledgement of him, there have been people pooping on the quasi-religious party
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- By Amanda Mannen
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