31 Nonsense Things People Believed for Too Long
No, catnip is not a black-market substance
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- By Ian Garner
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Five Historical Figures With Silly Phobias
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- By Amanda Mannen
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48 of the Funniest Burns from the Week of September 2, 2024
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- By Ian Garner
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12 Sports Mascots That Inspire Fear, Not Fans
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- By Eli Yudin
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The Director of ‘The ‘Burbs’ Is Available for Seth MacFarlane’s Reboot of the Cult Comedy
Hire Joe Dante, Peacock
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- By JM McNab
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30 Earthly Items That Are Haunted or Historically Significant
Think these are just hunks of random materials? Think again
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- By Jay Wells L'Ecuyer, Cracked Writers
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‘Community’s Epic ‘Beetlejuice’ Easter Egg Began as a Joke in the Writers’ Room
It was more of a happy accident than a three-year-long plan
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- By JM McNab
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12 Fresh Trivia Tidbits for Friday, September 6, 2024
A mushroom-operated robot army may be in our future
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- By Jesse
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Let’s Hope Macaulay Culkin’s Christmas Tour Is Less Sad Than Chevy Chase’s
The Christmas comedy Q&A and nostalgia screening racket just gained a powerful new player
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- By Keegan Kelly
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Ben Stiller’s New Movie Went to Great Pains to Include a Cast Member’s ‘Eight-Second Fart’
Saving audio of prolonged farts is just smart filmmaking
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- By JM McNab
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39 of the Funniest Tweets from Friday, September 6, 2024
Why use a semicolon when you could use an em dash?
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- By Ian Garner
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Oasis Got in Legal Trouble for Plagiarizing a Monty Python Collaborator’s Track
The Gallaghers were heavily influenced by a song about idiocy
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- By JM McNab
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40 Random Bits of Trivia We Found Swirling at the Bottom of the Fact Keg
Some might call them dregs. We call them flavor crystals
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- By Jesse, Cracked Writers
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The Danny DeVito Comedy That Brian De Palma Regrets Making
‘I should have just taken my money and walked’
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- By Matt Solomon
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Lucille Ball Nearly Died Filming Iconic ‘I Love Lucy’ Bit
The comedy scene was ‘not the way I had planned to go’
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- By Matt Solomon
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The Evolutionary Feature That Helps You Better Grab A Cold One
Science has ensured we can toss one back with the boys
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- By Eli Yudin
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22 Historical Figures Who Sucked Pretty Hard
Winston Churchill was a hero to some, but definitely not all
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- By Amanda Mannen
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‘The Simpsons’ Theme Song Was Based on Music From Another Classic Cartoon
Thank you, Hanna-Barbera
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- By JM McNab
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The Most Tim Burton-y Movies Not Directed by Tim Burton
You can’t copyright the concept of pale outcasts
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- By JM McNab
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Renovating Casa Bonita Made Colorado Feel Like Home Again for Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Parker and Stone say that the Denver area has been giving them a bit of a could shoulder since the first ‘South Park’ movie
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- By Keegan Kelly
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Here’s the Hilarious Reason Why Bobby Moynihan Says the ‘SNL’ Structure Is Outdated
Moynihan says that the ‘SNL’ structure is so stressful because it’s built on a powdery white foundation
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- By Keegan Kelly
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Five Qualities That Reveal More About You Than You Think
The truth always comes out — sometimes in ways we never expected
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- By Amanda Mannen
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32 Strange Things People Found in Their Homes
‘A knife on my wife’s vanity’
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- By Ian Garner
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