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Super Creepy Facts For A Super Creepy Time Of Year

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CRACKEDCON HIMALAYAN VILLAGERS JUST PLAY ALONG WITH YETI HUNTERS. Western city slickers' obsession with the mythical snowdude is quite lucrative in thMore: 4 Times Huge Money Was Wasted To Prove Silly Theories

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Super Creepy Facts For A Super Creepy Time Of YearMore: 12 Weird Changes The Government Asked Famous Movies to Make

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MOUNT EVEREST IS LITTERED WITH DEAD BODIES. Once a desolate place, Mount Everest is climbed every year by hundreds of people wishing to look down on tMore: 6 Ways Selfie-Addicted Tourists Are Destroying The World

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CRACKED COM YOUR FACE COULD GET YOU EXECUTED. There are facial features we instinctively relate to untrustworthiness, whether fairly or not- and, accoMore: 5 Crazy Statistics That'll Change How You Think Of Crime

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IN THE COMICS, THANOS COMMITS UNIVERSAL GENOCIDE TO IMPRESS DEATH. Thanos' finger snap of doom wasn't originally a radical approach to resource allocaMore: 6 Times The Source Material Was Too Dumb For The Movie

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JEFFREY DAHMER IDENTIFIED WITH THE DEVIL IN THE EXORCIST. To get in a killing mood, Dahmer would watch both Return of the Jedi and The Exorcist II. AcMore: 5 Shocking Ways Pop Culture Inspired Horrible Crimes

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YOU CAN (IN THEORY) KILL SOMEONE WITH FARTS. How many farts does it take to kill a person? Someone did the math and published the results on the interMore: 6 Very Stupid Questions With Very Smart Answers

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CRACKED c COM STELLER'S SEA APE WAS SEEN ONLY ONCE. Georg Wilhelm Steller wasn't a wacky cryptozoologist, but a reputable 18th- century naturalist. SoMore: 5 Historical Mysteries That Had Painfully Dumb Explanations

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CRACKEDcO ED KEMPER WAS A VICIOUS MURDERER BELOVED BY THE COPS. Kemper loved to hang out with police officers, who WOuLd tell him they had no idea whoMore: 5 Horrible Mistakes That Let Serial Killers Go Free

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CRACKED COM ONLY WEALTHY CORPSES WERE SALVAGED FROM THE TITANIC. Many of the bodies recovered after the Titanic sank were thrown back into the ocean. More: 5 Historical Tragedies That Were Even Darker Than You Think

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CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S CHILDHOOD WAS HELL. Abandoned by their father, and with their mother committed to an asylum, Charlie and his brother Sydney had a DiMore: 5 Famous People Who Had Horrifying Childhoods

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WE'RE GETTING TWO CHILD'S PLAY FRANCHISES BECAUSE A RICH JERK HATED HORROR MOVIES. Australian businessman Christopher Skase was about to buy MGM- and More: 6 2019 Movies with Crazy Behind-the-Scenes Drama

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CRACKEDcO A 14TH-CENTURY BOOK CONTAINS SPELLS AND CRUEL PRANKS. The Secretum Philosophorum teaches subjects such as math, grammar, astronomy, and magiMore: 4 Impressively Weird Pranks From Centuries Ago

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NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD RIPPED OFF AM LEGEND. For his seminal horror film, George Romero just took Richard Matheson's apocalyptic novel and changed tMore: 6 Iconic Movies And Shows That Were Outright Ripoffs

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PETER DINKLAGE HAD HIS HEAD SLICED OPEN-DURING A ROCK SHOW. Like Tyrion, Dinklage has a nasty scar-and its story is just as epic. Back when he sang inMore: 5 Weird Music Careers Of Marvel Movie Stars

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CRACKED.COM CIVIL WAR COULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT ZOMBIES: Producers had a plan B in case they couldn't secure Robert Downey Jr. for the third Captain AmeriMore: The 5 Weirdest Choices The MCU Almost Made

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ATHLETES HAVE BAD TEETH. Your mouth is the one place where your health is likely to be better than a pro athlete's. Things such as gulping for air, chMore: 5 Underreported Dumb Annoyances Pro Athletes Put Up With

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CRACKED COM GLENN CLOSE SPENT HER YOUTH IN A CULT. When Close was seven, her parents joined a militant religious group called Moral Re-Armament. SheMore: 6 Celebrities With Family Histories Crazier Than The Movies

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CRACKED COM IN THE 1930s, PEOPLE WOULD DANCE THEMSELVES TO DEATH. Dance marathons were popular during the Great Depression. A contest that offered freMore: 6 Harmless Things With Insanely Disturbing Origin Stories

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CRACKEDcO POWDERED WIGS EXISTED BECAUSE OF WIDESPREAD GROSSNESS. In the 1500s, head lice and syphilis were everywhere. Wearing a wig helped keep the bMore: 5 Ways The Past Used To Be Unbelievably Disgusting

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CRACKEDGOM WE KEEP FINDING HORRIBLE SPIDERS. You might think every eight-legged monstrosity is already known and safely far away. You'd be dead (and) More: 6 Terrifying Reasons To Stay Indoors This Summer

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