Radioactivity
Ahh, radioactivity and radioactive materials. The common origin of Daredevil and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and a hazard we're shockingly casual with. Of course, we know that Atomic Gardening has the potential to save the world, but maybe shoe store x-rays are too far. Nuclear power and its byproducts is one of those really-good-or-really-bad things, which means that while it's cool your dentist can take good x-rays now, maybe it's not cool that the Museum of the Grand Canyon had buckets of uranium lying around.
7 Terrifying Places (Where Movies Were Filmed)
Berlin, radioactive San Francisco. Same thing.
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260 6 Real Locations That Are Clearly Secret Supervillain Lairs
We live in a world of strange structures and eldritch locations that are seemingly normal, but are clearly cartoonish supervillain lairs.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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4 Creepy Ways History Was a Never-Ending Horror Show
As much as we like to complain about all the bullshit the world is throwing at us today, our Internet-less, video-game-free ancestors had it way, way worse.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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The 6 Most Clearly Disturbing Mascots in Marketing History
Designing a mascot is one of the easiest things in the world. Well, almost ...
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- By Raoni Lacerda, Evan V. Symon , Matt Farmer, Carolyn Burke
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5 Things Hollywood Gets Wrong About the Apocalypse
Hollywood will leave you ill-prepared for the collapse of society, because it has managed to completely overlook several key aspects of life on post-apocalyptic Earth.
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5 Presidents Who Were Total Badasses in Their Youth
As it turns out, many presidents spent their younger years going on Hollywood-worthy adventures through history, doling out Old West-style justice and opening casino bars in the South Pacific.
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- By Gavin Jamieson
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5 WTF Abandoned Wastelands You Won't Believe Exist
If Oscar the Grouch could buy a mansion, these would be at the top of the list.
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- By Richie Ryan, Eric Yosomono, Ryan Menezes
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The 5 Luckiest Accidents That Scientists Passed Off as Skill
This might come as some surprise, given everything Cracked has written about them, but it turns out that not every scientist is evil. In fact, most are just lucky idiots.
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- By Chris Bucholz
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6 'Harmless' Fads That Caused Widespread Destruction
It turns out some fads have poisoned thousands, started wars, and enslaved entire nations, all for the sake of some dumbass thing people wanted to ride, wear, or eat.
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- By Jack Hall, J. Wisniewski, Paige Turner
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6 Man-Made Materials You Won't Believe Exist
'Man-made materials' make most people think of disastrous fashion, or whine about how things were better when everything was natural and green. But we invented doors and electrical supplies to keep her out, and some of us have been building incredible unnatural things ever since.
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- By Luke McKinney
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The 6 Most Reckless Uses of Radioactive Material
Some people are, let's just say, a little more casual around nuclear material than the rest of us. And by people we mean governments, corporations and just random, everyday dumbasses.
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- By Eric Yosomono, Dustin Koski, Evan V. Symon
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7 Nuclear Weapon Screw-Ups You Won't Believe We Survived
Suprisingly, Stanley Kubrick was probably closest when he imagined the nuclear era as a game of poker between cocky, absent-minded lunatics. Only he probably didn't go far enough.
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- By Eric Yosomono, Dustin Koski, Evan V. Symon
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The 8 Most Wildly Irresponsible Vintage Toys
Molten glass, molten metal, hazardous chemicals -- all were included in toys back then ... on purpose.
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- By Tracy V.
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6 Important Things You Didn't Know We're Running Out Of
There are resources other than oil that are key to running to society. And we're running out of them. So much so we might end up killing our neighbors to get a hold of them.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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What Really Happens After a Radioactive Spider Bite [COMIC]
If the gritty reboot was realistic.
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- By Space Avalanche
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