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Inspired to host your own feline photo shoot? Johnson provided us with some tips and tricks designed to help you immortalize a kitty's cuteness.

A statuette from the John Huston–Humphrey Bogart classic The Maltese Falcon is one of the most recognizable, and sought-after, pieces of movie memorabilia in history. In fact, Steve Wynn paid $4.1 million for it. But was it the genuine article? Bryan Burrough tracks down a flock of Falcons, with links to both Leonardo DiCaprio and a famous Hollywood unsolved murder.

This inspired economist Don Boudreaux to write a blog post asking, how much money would it take for you to agree to live out your life a century ago? Would you do it for a million dollars? What about a billion dollars? When considering this question, he asks that you keep in mind that in 1916, no matter how rich you were, you would not be able to enjoy any of the following:

Maybe you studied Spanish at school, and as much as you wanted to become fluent you just couldn’t find the time to practice. Or maybe you just felt like you were never making real progress.

Here are the origin stories behind 7 of the most widely shared memes on the internet.

Easter eggs are great. They make any game or movie or TV show infinitely better just by being there -- and often you never notice! But guess what? Media isn't the only thing with easter eggs. It turns out stuff you use every day has little hidden features that make them more brilliant than you initially thought.

It’s a question Coke and Pepsi drinkers have been asking for decades. In the prolonged marketing battle that began in the '70s and saw the beloved major brands duke it out via celebrity endorsements, rewards promotions (Pepsi Stuff, anyone?), an onslaught of advertisements, and even a race into space, RC Cola remained on the sidelines, a quiet blue and red can that seemed content to simply be.

Ever wonder where your favorite fast food chain first popped up? Look no further.

Wolfram Alpha is a great search engine for data geeks, but it has plenty of computation tricks up its sleeve that are useful for the rest of us too. Here are some of the most useful.

Wanna know a secret? A “classic” car is anything 25 years or older—which means all those under-loved rides of the ’70s and ’80s are officially up for consideration. And if you liked gawking at them as a kid, imagine how much more you’d enjoy driving one right now. Herewith, our nominees for a New Generation of Classics, and how to go about scoring one of your own.

Everyone dreams of staking a claim to a deserted island, but few pull it off. Former British Army Maj. Paddy Roy Bates was a bit more proactive; he created his own country back in 1967, and the tiny state is still going strong.

You can teach yourself how to improve your memory without putting in too much effort.

But while it’s true that I can speak in 20 different languages, including English, it took me a while to understand that there’s more to language than bartering over kebabs in Arabic or ordering from a menu in Hindi. Fluency is another craft altogether.

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”

At the event, KFC head chef Bob Das and comedian Rachel Dratch — continuing KFC's commitment to employing former "Saturday Night Live" cast members — gave a step-by-step look at how KFC chicken is made.

Ferrari, the synonym for “fast cars” bundled with a high horsepower has emerged as an undisputed race car makers. Only a few known brands like Lamborghini and Porsche can give this massive company a tough competition.

Lets start with the basics. Programming is the process of taking an algorithm and encoding it into a notation, a programming language, so that it can be executed by a computer.

There are also much bigger things, things about life and growing up that someone damn sure should've told you about.

What do Star Trek, Gone with the Wind and The Andy Griffith Show have in common? You might have to strain to find similarities between the two very different TV shows and a classic movie, but they do have one common bond: location.

When you desire meaning, when you want things to line up, when looking for something specific, you tend to notice patterns everywhere, which leads you to ask the question, “What are the odds?” Usually, the odds are actually pretty good.

There’s an old saying among fellow cheapskates: “Free is my favorite price.” Fortunately, there are many great free things to be had, you just have to know where to look. Click through to see 75 great freebies.

One of the more environmentally friendly ways to get rid of old food scraps is to compost them. I’d say that this is an even better alternative!

Actual 3D footage can be a pain, both to capture and to watch, which is why we fell in love with this super simple technique when we ran across it. It turns out, all you have to do to turn a normal photo or animated GIF into a 3D experience is add a couple of white bars…

"I am frequently asked why I chose the at sign, but the at sign just makes sense."

This is the Lamborghini story like you’ve never heard it before: from the son of Ferruccio, Tonino Lamborghini, the kid sitting at the dinner table.

Born two decades before the beginning of the 20th century, what kind of mind was his that could come up with ideas that would have to wait until the second decade of the 21st century to be proven correct?

“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.” – Nikola Tesla

Are you broke? Don't lie to us, of course you are! Everybody is! And it's not just because of your crippling addiction to Boom Beach, it's because you're letting yourself get taken for a ride literally everywhere you spend money.

This is a collection of TV fonts, which are identical or similar to the fonts used in the titles of TV series.

A quick crash course video on how to land a 737 airplane if both pilots become incapacitated. Hopefully you will never have to use this life saving information.

The flashy producer behind House of Cards, The Social Network, and Fifty Shades of Grey is one of the most controversial figures in show business. Evgenia Peretz gets to know the man behind the braggadocio—and his three Ferraris.

Auberon Herbert (1838–1906) was a 19th-century British political philosopher and member of Parliament, who recognized that each individual has inalienable rights to direct his own mind and body, and to keep and use the product of his own effort.

Necco wafers may no longer be the Halloween candy of choice, but the company still dominates February 14 with its Sweethearts. The little hard sugar hearts have been popular Valentine's Day elementary school wampum for decades.

Lies are hard to come up with on the spot, even for seasoned liars. If you suspect someone is feeding you a false story, draw it out by making them think too much about their story.

We here at Cracked love our Easter eggs. That's why we find it totally awesome to learn that there are Easter eggs hiding all around us in real life.

If we relied on Yukon Cornelius from the 1964 Christmas classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to teach us about dog sledding, we might be slightly misled. In multiple instances throughout the movie, Cornelius cracks the whip and hollers, “Mush, mush!!” to his dog sled team. But do mushers actually say this?  You might be surprised given that they are literally called “mushers” that no, not really. So why are they called “mushers” and where did the idea that they yelled “mush” to their dogs to get them to run come from?

Today’s Vlog! Fireball scoots Kathie to NY, then heads to Long Beach to meet up with Hot Wheels Designer Larry Wood and his cool Garage. PLEASE SHARE Today’s Episode!

This post is by request. How long does it take to learn Chinese or Japanese vs. Spanish or Irish Gaelic? I would argue less than an hour. Here’s the reasoning…

Absolutely Fabulous first aired back in 1992 and right up until 2012 Edina & Patsy continued to keep us entertained… Well with 2016 set to be a big year in British Comedy (5 British Comedies Making A Comeback) we’re also excited about the up-coming Absolutely Fabulous Movies‘ release. To help keep that excitement up, here are 6 important things we’ve learnt from Ab Fab:

The anonymous programmer has created scripts to automate even the most menial daily tasks. However, these weren’t discovered until he left his position and his former colleagues found and posted them on GitHub for the world to enjoy.

The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was one of the most mysterious and fascinating in history – and the inspiration for film adaptations of The Hobbit and last year’s acclaimed BBC Two series The Last Kingdom. But who were the Anglo-Saxons, and were they really as enigmatic as has been suggested? Martin Wall brings you the facts...

Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed) 100% accuracy.

The scientists who made headlines this week by announcing evidence for a new planet in our solar system are basing the claim entirely on a mathematical model. Nobody’s seen the thing, but the math says it’s there. This isn’t the first time scientists have found a new planet before really finding it, but this technique also has produced outright blunders. This time, though, astronomers say there’s reason to take the new potential planet seriously.

Outside, this home is like any other in Newport, Ore., with creamy white siding, yellowed brick, and a two-car garage. Inside, it’s a...

The IT Crowd is one of those British Comedy TV Shows that just gets better as time goes on. The more technology evolves the funnier the IT Crowd and how they react to things like ‘The Internet’ just gets funnier! Here’s 9 Quotes from The IT Crowd that you should be using in life!

Room to room, this condo oozes authentic 1970s décor. You would need a time machine to take photos any more authentic than these! (Notice the vintage TV in the bottom left corner in the photo below).

Trix cereal is made of colorful pieces of corn puffs. Manufactured by General Mills, Trix has been around since the mid-1950s. Although Trix’s iconic rabbit mascot has morphed in appearance over the decades, the Trix Rabbit still appears on the cereal’s boxes and stars in the commercials. Check out these 11 vibrant facts about Trix.

Happy birthday, A. A. Milne! The author, best known as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, was born on January 18, 1882. Not only have characters Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore, and the other lovable Ashdown Forest residents stood the test of time, so too have the lessons they taught us. Today, we’re honoring Milne’s birthday in the best way we know how — with wise quotes lifted from his Winnie-the-Pooh books! Below are our favorites.

Since Sherlock Holmes’ creation, dozens of actors have attempted to portray the great detective – on stage, on radio, in films and on television. But their efforts to breathe new life into this enigmatic character might well have been greeted with bemusement by Holmes’ creator, who wrote in a letter in 1892: “Holmes is as inhuman as Babbage’s Calculating Machine.” Did you know…