Science & History
6 People You've Never Heard of Who Probably Saved Your Life
Hollywood, and to a certain extent history, likes to glorify those who were great a taking lives. Here are those that saved millions. And one that's friggin' Wolverine.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 7 Most Disastrous Typos Of All Time
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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7 Incredible Scientific Innovations Held Back by Petty Feuds
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- By Jack Mendoza
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6 Supposedly Ancient Traditions (That Totally Aren't)
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- By Robert Evans, CRACKED Staff
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
The 6 Most Important Things Humanity Just Plain Forgot
Turns out some of the most amazing things ever discovered wound up lost or forgotten for centuries, for utterly ridiculous reasons.
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- By David Graham
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6 Mind-Blowing Achievements in Propaganda
When you think 'propaganda' you immediately picture a huge statue of a dictator, or banners stamped with corny slogans. You think of the kind of clumsy brainwashing that only works on uneducated peasants.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Shockingly Powerful Kids Who Make You Look Like a Coward
While we spent our childhoods using our boogers to glue our other boogers into super boogers, these youngsters spent theirs rocking the universe with their flagrant--and often chilling--displays of power.
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- By Kristi Harrison
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5 Ancient Acts of War That Changed the Face of the Earth
Some of the asskickings unleashed by ancient empires were so mind-boggling, the Earth still hasn't recovered.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Historic Figures Who Shaped The World (By Cheating Death)
The most amazing thing about history is how amazingly close things came to turning out differently. An inch here, a second there... that's the only difference between the world we live in now and an alternate universe where everything sucks quite a bit more than it does here.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 7 Most Horrifying Things Ever Discovered in a Human Body
Most experienced surgeons and doctors will say they've seen it all. Most surgery is fairly routine, and it's only occasionally that you slice somebody open and some really crazy shit pops out. But when it does, man, crazy is definitely not an over-exaggeration.
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- By Shelby Fero
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5 Psych Experiments That Sounded Fun (Until They Started)
All these experiments were very real and sounded very awesome. On the surface. The truth was a very different kind of animal.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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6 Scientific Reasons People Drive Like Assholes
People can't drive worth a shit. On the road, we're a bunch of inconsiderate jerks and science has proven it.
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- By Dave Easton
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5 Works of Legitimate Mad Science Passed Off as Art
The people that take the abstract concepts of art and the concrete realities of science and mix them together are just as crazy as you'd expect.
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- By Robert Brockway
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6 Ridiculous History Myths (You Probably Think Are True)
Some of the things that we hear about people in the past, repeated again and again in cautionary tales about the present, simply aren't true. They were crazy, but they weren't THAT crazy.
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- By C. Coville
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5 Animals That Are Terrifyingly Hard to Kill
These are Mother Nature's last line of defense when Cracked rages its war against her. We are totally boned.
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- By Shelby Fero
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