Jacopo della Quercia

The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Things Ever Discovered in Space

Hollywood's most creative minds can't get past populating the place with planets that look a whole lot like Earth, populated by rapey aliens and Muppets. But real space is far, far stranger.

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By Jacopo della Quercia , Mike Cooney

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October 18, 2011

The 5 Most Badass Teams of Famous People To Ever Join Forces

The results of these team-ups were usually insane, if not world-changing.

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By Juan Arteaga, Jacopo della Quercia

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October 11, 2011

7 Classic Movies You Didn't Know Were Rip-Offs

How would you like it if we said we invented anorexia and scientifically impossible explosions, huh Hollywood?

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By Jacopo della Quercia , Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell

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October 03, 2011

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The 6 Most Insane True Tales of Survival

Every day there are untold stories of people surviving via luck, training or just the power of will. Even when it seems utterly impossible.

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By Jacopo della Quercia

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September 22, 2011

The 10 Greatest Uses of Trash Talk in the History of War

History records some badass trash talk that would put Schwarzenegger to shame, some spoken in dire circumstances. Of course, it takes a certain type of badass.

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By Jacopo della Quercia

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September 05, 2011

The 5 Most Depraved Sex Scenes Implied by 'Harry Potter'

If you clicked on this article expecting five Harry/Draco fanfics, prepare to be disappointed.

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By Jacopo della Quercia

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September 01, 2011

6 Animals That Kill Nature's Scariest Creatures For Fun

For every animal you'd be terrified to run across in the wild, the odds are there is at least one other beast who sees it as a tasty snack. And often it's what you'd least expect.

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By Jacopo della Quercia

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August 29, 2011

6 Famously Terrible Movies That Were Almost Awesome

Lots of bad movies looked like good movies in the early stages. It takes a whole bunch of people to make a movie, and often the finished product is only as good as its shittiest element. That messy process is how we wound up with ...

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By Jacopo della Quercia

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August 08, 2011

9 Traumatizing Moments from Classic Kids Movies

Allow us to once more explore the moments from kids' movies that left many a child traumatized.

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By Jacopo della Quercia

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June 22, 2011

5 Forgotten Revolutions That Created The Modern World

We may never have had 'Darling Nikki' if it hadn't been for some world-changing movements everyone promptly forgot about.

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By Jacopo della Quercia

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June 17, 2011

6 Civil War Myths Everyone Believes That Are Total B.S.

We might be going out on a limb here, but we're guessing that most of our readers aren't hardcore Civil War historians. And since VH-1 discontinued their series before they got around to the 1860s, a lot of us are walking around with Civil War misinformation firmly wired in our brains.

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By Jacopo della Quercia

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May 24, 2011

6 Hugely Popular Books That Accidentally Screwed The World

Even if you're not a writer or creative type, all of us dream of doing something to change the world, even if it's a small thing like being the guy to single-handedly catch bin Laden and throw him from a helicopter into the rotors of another helicopter. But be careful what you wish for; sometimes your 'world-changing' work doesn't necessarily chang

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By Jacopo della Quercia

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April 13, 2011

7 Memes That Went Viral Before The Internet Existed

In the very likely case that you're on the Internet right now, you already know what a "meme" is. But you may not realize that the concept -- a meaningless phrase, image or joke getting repeated endlessly for no reason at all -- predates the Internet generation by a long shot.

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By Jacopo della Quercia

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April 11, 2011

The 6 Most Childish Things Ever Done in Congress

Sometimes shit gets truly ridiculous in Congress.

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By Jacopo della Quercia , Zach Priestly

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March 17, 2011

18 Old-Timey Photos You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped

We've worked long and hard here at Cracked to make it clear that the past was badass. All you have to do is sift through old-timey photos, and you quickly realize that people back then possessed neither sanity nor a sense of self-preservation.

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By Jacopo della Quercia

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March 14, 2011

6 Awards That Would Actually Make The Oscars Worth Watching

Apparently, some of the greatest moments ever captured on film haven't gotten so much as a validated parking ticket from the Academy.

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By Jacopo della Quercia

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February 21, 2011

The 7 Most Unexpectedly Awesome Parties in History

We have it better than our ancestors in every way but one: How raging our parties are.

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By Robert Evans, Jacopo della Quercia

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February 07, 2011

5 Classic Board Games With Disturbing Origin Stories

Surely our favorite board games sprang fully formed from the land of bunnies and rainbows, right? Anybody? Hello?

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By Jacopo della Quercia

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February 06, 2011

The 6 Strangest Ways Anyone Was Ever Mistaken for a God

History has shown that through no fault of your own, you can be revered as some religion's immortal deity. All you need is to be in the right place at the right time.

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By Jacopo della Quercia

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January 19, 2011

6 Supervillains From History That Make The Joker Look Subtle

Real-life bad guys understand that dry, drawn-out political subterfuge is much cheaper and more effective than a clone army. Then, occasionally, some crackpot leaps straight off the pages into our world, with brazen, insane and often ridiculous plans for world domination that grant him comic book supervillain status.

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By Jacopo della Quercia

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January 03, 2011