Cracked Personal Experiences
4 Useful Things Forging Documents Taught Me About Your World
Note to all budding criminals, which we know compose a huge part of our readership: Do not try this at home.
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- By Robert Evans, Bob Morsch
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5 Strange Realities of Life With a Famous Dad
We sat down with Billy Mays III to learn just what life was like living with a father who cranked the volume on capitalism all the way up to 11.
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- By Evan V. Symon , Billy Mays III
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I Tested Drugs on Animals: 5 Insane Things I Learned
In the battle between country mouse and city mouse, country mouse clearly has it better off.
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- By Jess Addams, Ryan Menezes
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7 Strange Realities of BDSM '50 Shades of Grey' Leaves Out
We sat down with Julie Fennell a member of the BDSM community who is also a sociologist and associate professor at Gallaudet University. This is what we learned.
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- By Robert Evans, Julie Fennell
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5 Awful Realities of Having Size JJ Boobs in Sixth Grade
Maybe if I had stuck it out until the phase of life when breasts are useful, I'd be singing a different tune. But I doubt it.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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- 2029
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5 Realities of Mass Shootings Movies Don't Prepare You For
We talked to an anonymous survivor of the Utoya massacre in Norway. Here's what we learned about what it's like to be literally staring down the barrel of a gun.
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- By Anonymous, Amanda Mannen
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3 Shocking Things You Realize as a Gamer in a Dictatorship
In 1998, Hugo Chavez won the Venezuelan presidential elections, and Juan got to learn what 14 years under a veritable dictatorship does to the gaming scene.
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- By J.D López
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5 Bizarre Realities of Life at the Edge of Gaza
Plucky lives in a heavily armed settlement that the United Nations considers illegal. Here's what we learned about life on the knife's-edge of one of the longest-running conflicts in modern history.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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6 Things You Learn Listening in on Every Prison Phone Call
In the grand tradition of stupidly oversimplifying, we're calling her a phone warden.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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6 Awful Lessons I Learned Transitioning from Female to Male
We talked to Roman Jones, a trans man and American expat living in the Czech Republic. This is what we learned.
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- By Amanda Mannen, Roman Jones
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4 Scary Things You Only See Cutting People's Power as a Job
When the power goes off, and the TV and Internet with it, that's when the hammer really comes down. Cracked sat down with a meter specialist to find out what it's like to be the one bringing down that hammer.
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- By Anonymous, Talia Jane
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6 Terrifying Things You Learn as an Air Traffic Controller
If you've ever flown in a plane, or stood in a place over which planes were flying, you have air traffic controllers to thank for not being killed in a biblical cataclysm.
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- By Benjamin Stokes, Ryan Menezes
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5 Ways We Misunderstand Pedophilia (That Makes it Worse)
We sat down with several self-professed (but non-offending) pedophiles. Here's what we learned.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous, David Prescott, Dr. James Cantor
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7 Things You Only Find Out as a Lawyer to the Poor
We sat down with a not-for-profit lawyer partially to learn what his job is like and partially because we might have need of his services.
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- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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5 Things Breaking Bad Left Out About Having a Drug Lord Dad
We talked to Andrew Hass, whose life was derailed when his dad was caught growing thousands of plants worth of pot back in 1998, when Hass was still a teenager.
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- By Robert Evans, Andrew Hass
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- 600