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The 7 Most Insane Ways People Legally Avoided Paying Taxes
The truth is that the IRS isn't nearly as hardass as people think. There is a huge range of things you're allowed to write off from your taxes if you can make some kind of argument. And some of them are truly insane.
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644 Cracked Round-Up: Life Lessons About Drinking Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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The 5 Creepiest Disappearances That Nobody Can Explain
When people vanish, it usually turns out they were killed or kidnapped, or at least they were very likely to have been. Usually we have some kind of an answer. Usually -- but not always.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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6 Amazing Rich Kid Versions of the Toys You Grew Up With
It's hard not to wish you could, just once, re-live childhood as that rich kid who had everything. If by some sorcery that should ever occur, we recommend these.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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Cracked Round-Up: A Message from Cracked's Legal Department
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- By CRACKED Staff
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7 Old People Who Gave Retirement the Finger
These old people not only have more ambition than most of us despite being well past their prime, but they're also doing jobs most of us wouldn't even begin to consider.
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- By Erik Germ
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The 9 Most Baffling Monuments to Great People
The great monuments tend to also be simple -- Abe Lincoln's is just him sitting in a chair, Mount Rushmore is just a bunch of giant heads. But some sculptors decide to get creative, to create a memorial that will really blow people's minds. The results are often the stuff of nightmares.
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- By Chris Zeigler
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The 5 Most Insulting Ways Products Are Advertised to Men
Just as ads in the 1950s assumed that all women were housewives desperate for new ways to starch their husbands' shirts, advertisers today demonstrate an extremely low opinion of their male customers.
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- By Colin Murdock, Aren Wilborn
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The 9 Most Insane Board Games of All Time
We realize that advertising should be taken with a whole shaker of salt, especially when it comes to toys, where there's a long history of making products look better than they are (as multiple generations of Sea Monkeys owners can testify). These board game boxes, though, go beyond deceptive advertising and right into the realm of 'See, this is wh
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- By Tracy V.
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6 Popular Children's Books That Teach Kids Horrible Lessons
The cutesy, cartoony little picture books you find in the beanbag section of the library aren't actively teaching kids to idolize crack dealers or mock the disabled, right? Actually, some of the biggest names in the industry are practically seeding our children's brains with impending personality disorders.
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- By Jeff Beauvoir
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7 Outrageous Hoaxes That Actually Worked
Since society has had several thousand years of practice at recognizing con artists, you'd think we'd get pretty good at spotting them. But you'd be wrong. For a scam to succeed, it doesn't take any kind of special genius. Or even average genius.
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- By Dwayne Hoover, Dustin Koski
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5 Priceless Works of Art Destroyed by Unintentional Hilarity
Like a slapstick movie where the buffoon main character encounters a priceless work of art, and then accidentally destroys it in some hilarious way, a shocking number of the world's great pieces have in fact been ruined in this fashion.
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- By Siobhan McKeown
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5 Bizarre Ways You Can Brainwash a Courtroom
Some day you might wind up in front of a judge due to a 'hilarious' misunderstanding (or because you had to murder some dudes). If so, there are several things that can tip the scales of justice in your favor that have nothing to do with the law or evidence.
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- By Kathy Benjamin, Lillian Marx
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5 Real Judges Who Put the Most Evil Supervillain to Shame
It's one thing for a judge to be corrupt -- we sort of expect that to happen in all public jobs, because we watch the news. It's quite another for judges to be hilarious lunatics, criminally lazy schemers or just impossibly evil.
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- By E. Reid Ross, Tom Rodgers
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6 Nobodies Who Stumbled Into World Changing Discoveries
Some of the greatest historical finds have been stumbled across by random dudes just wandering around the neighborhood.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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