5 True Tales of Good Fortune With Horribly Cruel Plot Twists

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5 True Tales of Good Fortune With Horribly Cruel Plot Twists

If life loves to beat one lesson into our heads over and over again, it's this: If something is too good to be true, it almost always is. And it also works if something seems exactly good enough to be...

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The 6 Creepiest Sexual Encounters in Comic Book History

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The 6 Creepiest Sexual Encounters in Comic Book History

We may have mentioned a few times how comic books have mastered the art of finding new and creative ways of making sex bizarrely unappealing, even to people who read comic books. Here are some instanc...

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5 Supposedly Badass Criminals Caught in Embarrassing Ways

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5 Supposedly Badass Criminals Caught in Embarrassing Ways

Criminal masterminds do exist; there are bad guys who have gotten away with their deeds for decades without ever leaving enough evidence behind for the cops to make a case. Yet, when these guys eventu...

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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Discovery: Mystery Sea Beast of Cincinnati Found

A seven-foot-long fossilized specimen was found in the Ohio city from when shallow seas covered the region.

Mystery Sea Beast of Cincinnati Found

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5 True Tales of Good Fortune With Horribly Cruel Plot Twists

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5 True Tales of Good Fortune With Horribly Cruel Plot Twists

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The 6 Greatest Battlefield Mindfucks

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The 6 Greatest Battlefield Mindfucks

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5 Gay Guys Who Got More Women Than Most Straight Men

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5 Gay Guys Who Got More Women Than Most Straight Men

Human sexuality can be a mysterious thing. How do we fall in love? What fans our desire? Should it always hurt this much when urinating? I don't pretend to have the answers to any of these questions. ...

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6 Tiny Mistakes That Almost Ended the World

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6 Tiny Mistakes That Almost Ended the World

For those of us who grew up in the '80s and '90s, it's difficult to fully understand just how close to annihilation we actually came in the 20th century. With the two most powerful nations on Earth th...

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FOX News: Bite for bite, how to get the most nutrients

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CNET: Google's original phone surfaces in court

Google's original phone surfaces in court - CNET

In 2006, Google proposed to partner with T-Mobile for a phone and fund a $9..99 unlimited data plan.


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5 Futuristic Technologies Invented in the Wrong Century

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5 Futuristic Technologies Invented in the Wrong Century

We're all familiar with the idea that science fiction often predicts science fact. But every once in a while the universe gets its wires so crossed that something we tend to think of as the far-fetche...

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7 Commonly Corrected Grammar Errors (That Aren't Mistakes)

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7 Commonly Corrected Grammar Errors (That Aren't Mistakes)

If you've written anything on the Internet in the past 20 years or so, whether on a forum, a comment thread or the Denny's corporate blog you maintain, a short time later you've probably experienced a...

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The 6 Baffling Mistakes Every Horror Franchise Must Make

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The 6 Baffling Mistakes Every Horror Franchise Must Make

The day these don't happen is the day cinema ends for good....

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Discovery: Horror Movies About To Get Scarier

During the Sundance Film Festival in January, a midnight screening of V/H/S provoked the

Horror Movies About To Get Scarier

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Discovery: The Search Is On For Elusive White Whale

Scientists want to learn more about the first all-white, mature male orca ever seen.

The Search Is On For Elusive White Whale

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Discovery: Why We're Drawn to Fire

Fire may be mesmerizing only to those who have not yet learned to master it.

Why We're Drawn to Fire

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6 Things You Won't Believe Science Can Do with DNA

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6 Things You Won't Believe Science Can Do with DNA

DNA gets a bad rap. The most sophisticated substance in existence, and thanks to CSI we think of it as murderer semen. Or watch it proving that chatshow guests who everybody (including them) hopes nev...

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6 Nobodies Who Turned Into Superheroes without Warning

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6 Nobodies Who Turned Into Superheroes without Warning

Experts sometimes fail us. Police officers and firemen can't be everywhere at once. Fortunately, on those rare occasions when qualified individuals can't be found, a random nobody is sometimes waiting...

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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Discovery: Ancient 'Bone Box' Called Oldest Christian Artifact

After robotic cameras read the ossuaries, experts began debating what the engravings mean.

Ancient 'Bone Box' Called Oldest Christian Artifact

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Discovery: Were You Born Mean?

When researchers at the University of Buffalo and University of California, Irvine, set out to

Were You Born Mean?

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Discovery: Great White Shark Kills Star Bodyboarder

(David Lilienfeld last year, getting ready to go bodyboarding.) A  great white shark this we

Great White Shark Kills Star Bodyboarder

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Discovery: Women and Children First? Not Anymore

The idea that women and children should be helped off a sinking ship first died with the Titanic.

Women and Children First? Not Anymore

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5 UFO Sightings That Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy

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5 UFO Sightings That Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy

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5 Baffling Discoveries That Prove History Books Are Wrong

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5 Baffling Discoveries That Prove History Books Are Wrong

A generation of students found out the hard way that archaeology isn't anywhere near as much fun as Indiana Jones made it look. Still, experts in the field do have their exciting, and even shocking, d...

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The 7 Greatest Pieces of Trash Talk in the History of War

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The 7 Greatest Pieces of Trash Talk in the History of War

Some one-liners uttered by historical figures during the heat of battle are so awesome that they seem taken right out of a particularly bombastic Hollywood war movie. But we've already gone over those...

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6 Popular Upbeat Songs You Didn't Realize Are Depressing

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6 Popular Upbeat Songs You Didn't Realize Are Depressing

If there's one thing the Internet has taught us about society, it's that even a half-eaten slice of pizza has more of an attention span than the average person. So it should come as no surprise that a...

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

5 Great Scientists Who Believed Wildly Unscientific Things

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5 Great Scientists Who Believed Wildly Unscientific Things

If you've been reading Cracked for a while, you probably already know that some scientists had pretty unorthodox methods of experimentation, and that some others were thought of as idiots in their tim...

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FOX News: The car that went down with the Titanic

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8 Child Prodigies So Amazing They'll Ruin Your Day

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8 Child Prodigies So Amazing They'll Ruin Your Day

Like really ruin. (We shouldn't have shared this on a Friday.)...

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The 5 Most Impossible Sniper Shots Ever Made

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The 5 Most Impossible Sniper Shots Ever Made

Snipers are the elite masters of the art of killing somebody from a distance before he or she has any idea what is going on. Of course, shooting from such a long range incurs a wide array of difficult...

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The 6 Most Hilariously Stupid Criminal Excuses of All Time

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The 6 Most Hilariously Stupid Criminal Excuses of All Time

If making fun of stupid criminals is a crime, then we plead guilty. We'll even do it in some laughably incompetent way so that we can become a list entry in one of our own articles. Indeed, one of the...

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5 One-Hit Wonders Who Deserve Your Respect: Part 2

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5 One-Hit Wonders Who Deserve Your Respect: Part 2

A few weeks ago, my fellow columnist Adam Tod Brown did something I've always wanted to do: he sat down and had dinner with me. But shortly after that, he also wrote an article called 5 One-Hit Wonder...

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5 One-Hit Wonders Who Deserve Your Respect: Part 2

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5 One-Hit Wonders Who Deserve Your Respect: Part 2

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The 7 Most Insane Ways People Legally Avoided Paying Taxes

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The 7 Most Insane Ways People Legally Avoided Paying Taxes

Nobody wants to cross the IRS -- if they can put infamous gangsters and Wesley Snipes behind bars, they won't hesitate to steamroll your sorry ass. Most of us fill out our forms and pray that a math e...

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Saturday, April 14, 2012

FOX News: Vatican Mystery Deepens After Good Friday Homily

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The 5 Creepiest Disappearances That Nobody Can Explain

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The 5 Creepiest Disappearances That Nobody Can Explain

Back in the Dark Ages, people disappeared all the time. Crusades, disease and nearly nonexistent bookkeeping made it easy to slip through the cracks without so much as a footprint left behind. Luckily...

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CNET: Trinity Site: First atomic bomb detonation still resonates

Trinity Site: First atomic bomb detonation still resonates - CNET

Trinity Site, the location of the first atomic bomb test, sits in a desolate desert region of the Southwest. Crave's Nerdy New Mexico series kicks off with a look at this historic area today.


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CNET: Signs of life on Mars--from 1976

Signs of life on Mars--from 1976 - CNET

Building on previous tests that found signs of microbial life, scientists re-examine data from the Viking mission and once again find strong signs of organic compounds in Red Planet soil.


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Thursday, April 12, 2012

6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (With Really Obvious Solutions)

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6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (With Really Obvious Solutions)

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Discovery: Mars Viking Robots 'Found Life'

Mathematical analysis adds to growing body of work questioning the negative results of a life-detection experiment 36 years ago.

Mars Viking Robots 'Found Life'

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Experts out to solve deep-sea Scorpion mystery

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Experts out to solve deep-sea Scorpion mystery

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The 6 Most Quoted Pieces of Advice (That Are Usually Wrong)

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The 6 Most Quoted Pieces of Advice (That Are Usually Wrong)

From birth, we've been inundated with one-sentence messages that are meant to be quick fixes for virtually any problem. You find them everywhere: songs, sitcoms, movies, novels. Pour enough beer into ...

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Where's the bridge? The 7 Biggest Things Ever Stolen

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Where's the bridge? The 7 Biggest Things Ever Stolen

Be sure to check for the follow up: '6 Reasons Cracked Horribly Failed to Steal the Statue of Liberty.'...

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7 Classic Disney Movies That Taught Us Terrible Lessons

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7 Classic Disney Movies That Taught Us Terrible Lessons

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5 Seemingly Random Factors That Control Your Memory

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5 Seemingly Random Factors That Control Your Memory

We have all experienced zone-out moments when we know we totally should remember something that has apparently been deleted from our brain's hard drive against our will. That's because the human brain...

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7 Random Things You Won't Believe Are Shortening Your Life

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7 Random Things You Won't Believe Are Shortening Your Life

Most "tips" for living longer are pretty obvious stuff: eat healthy, don't work too much, stay fit, go on lots of vacations, maybe don't be a popular rock musician aged 27. It turns out that not only ...

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Discovery: The Fastest Sprinter Could Run Faster

Usain Bolt has not yet reached the limits of human running speed, but where that limit lies is still a bit of a mystery.

The Fastest Sprinter Could Run Faster

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The 8 Most Incredible Things Slapped Together in a Day

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The 8 Most Incredible Things Slapped Together in a Day

It's time again for everyone who hasn't filed their taxes to start freaking out about how much work they've left to the last minute. Fortunately, people have been up against much more uncomfortable wa...

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Discovery: In Pre-1492 Amazon, Farmers Managed Without Fires

The secret to sustainable agriculture may be to return to the way farmers did things before Columbus arrived.

In Pre-1492 Amazon, Farmers Managed Without Fires

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MIT Predicts That World Economy Will Collapse By 2030 from Popular Science

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Discovery: Restored Scribble May Be Shakespeare's Signature

High-tech photography has helped reconstruct a signature that may belong to William Shakespeare — or a clever forger.

Restored Scribble May Be Shakespeare's Signature

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Discovery: Young Mammoth Likely Butchered by Humans

The carcass of the juvenile "Yuka" may have been cut up, eaten and then buried by ancient people.

Young Mammoth Likely Butchered by Humans

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The 5 Most Badass Tales of Wartime Survival

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The 5 Most Badass Tales of Wartime Survival

We all know Bear Grylls is fond of looking like a badass on TV, as he "escapes" numerous wilderness areas, sleeps inside a dead camel and drinks his own urine (or at least he did, before he got his as...

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The 5 Most Badass Tales of Wartime Survival

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The 5 Most Badass Tales of Wartime Survival

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7 Ridiculously Outdated Assumptions Every Movie Makes

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7 Ridiculously Outdated Assumptions Every Movie Makes

Have you ever watched a movie set in the present where a guy was, say, using a pay phone, and thought, "Man, how old are these writers? Use your cellphone!" The thing is, writers often reference not r...

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6 Popular Children's Books That Teach Kids Horrible Lessons

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6 Popular Children's Books That Teach Kids Horrible Lessons

As only buzzkills like us would want to point out, some children's books seem to intentionally traumatize kids with hard adult themes of vice and dysfunction. But those are the exception, not the rule...

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Sunday, April 1, 2012

7 Outrageous Hoaxes That Actually Worked

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7 Outrageous Hoaxes That Actually Worked

We all think of ourselves as cynics -- other people fall for scams and fraudulent sales pitches, but not us! And in fact, since society has had several thousand years of practice at recognizing con ar...

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6 Prank Gadgets That Only A Sociopath Would Actually Use

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6 Prank Gadgets That Only A Sociopath Would Actually Use

Everyone knew that one big kid in school who was constantly playing "pranks" that simply involved physically hurting other people ("You just punched me in the kidneys!" "Ha! Gotcha!"). Well, those kid...

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