By CRACKED Readers  Published: May 16th, 2012  As we showed recently, some of the most famous people in the world have photographs in their past that cast them in an entirely new light that sort of ruins everything you ever thought about them. We asked you to use the magic of image manipulation t

By Ian Fortey  Published: May 16th, 2012  Oh, hello. I didn't see you there, because I wrote this about a week before you're reading it and haven't quite polished seeing through time yet. When I do, I'll meet you in the shower. The naked shower. I'll be the guy from the future with the smirk

By Gladstone  Published: May 16th, 2012  I've written about people you meet in Hell and people who deserve to die for everyday crimes against humanity -- y'know, like eating pungent food on public transportation. But today's column is about people who attempt to make this world a better pla

By Chris Rio  Published: May 16th, 2012  In school science labs, we always learned that proper experimentation hinged on a delicate balance of adequate subjects, samples sizes and controls and a precise understanding of all the variables of the environment. But it turns out that even scienc

By Christina H  Published: May 15th, 2012  With everyone's every deed made public on the Internet these days, we've suddenly all developed a lot more to apologize for. But we haven't actually gotten any sorrier, so all that means is that the number of fake apologies have gone up. And we've st

By Jack O'Brien,Elford Alley  Published: May 15th, 2012  When it comes to the birth of America, most of us are working from a stew of elementary school history lessons, Westerns and vague Thanksgiving mythology. And while it's not surprising those sources might biff a couple details, what's shocking is how

By John Dubensky  Published: May 15th, 2012  You will probably never have a good encounter with an ambulance. Either they're shrieking past in traffic and making you late for work, or you're riding in one while blood squirts from a horrific fireworks injury. Well, we have bad news: The world of

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By CRACKED Readers  Published: May 14th, 2012  There are plenty great movies that were one tiny mistake away from being great films. Hell, if the shark in Jaws hadn't been a complete catastrophe, that movie could have been ridiculous. We asked you to show us some other tiny changes that could hav

By J.F. Sargent  Published: May 14th, 2012  Some movie scenes are more famous than the movies they come from -- did you know, for example, that there's a whole film of Dustin Hoffman crossing streets with a dude dressed like a cowboy? However, it turns out that the most iconic scenes in some c

By Sara Ohlms,Mary Johnson  Published: May 14th, 2012  Human medical test subject is in that category of jobs, along with sperm donor and medicinal pot grower, that kind of seem like free money. Sure, you can't get rich doing it, but it's there if you should ever need it. Take some pills, fill out some f

By Monte Richard  Published: May 13th, 2012  Moms are heroes in any species. In many, they do not only the birthing and nursing, but also the hunting and fighting and protecting. And while human mothers certainly deserve all of the flowers and phone calls they get on Mother's Day, we dare say t

By T. Z. Keiser  Published: May 13th, 2012  Much of the last century or so has been dedicated to alleviating the plight of minorities, from one human rights campaign to the next. But in all this time, one group has consistently fallen through the cracks, remaining disadvantaged in almost every

By CRACKED Readers  Published: May 13th, 2012  Product placement has been reeking havoc on our major art forms ever since E.T. invented it by liking those Reece's Pieces so damn much. We asked you to show us what it might have looked like if this was always the case. The winner is below, but firs

By Gladstone  Published: May 12th, 2012  The other day, I finally gave in to the Internet's demands and watched Joss Whedon's Firefly series. Good call, Internet. I enjoyed it, but that has nothing to do with this article. Y'see, although the show takes place in a different galaxy 500 years

By Luke McKinney  Published: May 12th, 2012  Some men will stick their dick in anything, and this is the only fact evolution and police blotters agree on. The penis is a combination executive toy and override switch. Most men don't actually think with their dicks, because we're not sitcom chara

By Benjamin Buso  Published: May 12th, 2012  Most of the fun of watching movies like Ocean's Eleven is seeing all the planning, attention to detail and Chinese body contortion that happen behind the scenes of first-rate heists. And while we're 95 percent sure Ocean's wasn't a documentary, there

By CRACKED Readers  Published: May 11th, 2012  Mother's Day is upon us again, that annual pain in the ass of ungrateful little punks who don't know how much their mother went through for them. We asked you to show us what the cards might look like if all the flowery synonyms for gratitude were re

By Daniel O'Brien  Published: May 11th, 2012  I hate speaking negatively about writers, or musicians, or directors, or artists of any kind. Not because I think artists are better than regular people (HAH!), but because there's almost always an inherent risk when creativity is involved, and attac

By E. Reid Ross,Meg Anastasia  Published: May 11th, 2012  Millions of us are so terrified of or disinterested in having kids that we'll literally never do it. But the world's population keeps inflating like a balloon because there are plenty of people at the opposite end of that spectrum. Way, way at the op