Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 Times Censorship Just Made Everything Way Worse
Really, censorship is just making everything worse.
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- By Henrik Magnusson , B.T. Doran
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6 Legal Loopholes That Criminals Love To Exploit
A lot of time and effort goes into crafting the laws of our society, but every once in a while our devoted lawmakers will overlook a tiny little detail or two.
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- By Jason Iannone
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Disaster Photos To Put The Fear Of God In An Atheist
Just a reminder that Mother Nature can be absolutely ruthless.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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- 403
7 Safety PSAs (That Were Clearly Made By Serial Killers)
Sometimes keeping the public from killing themselves gets communicated in batshit crazy ways that are as scarring as death itself.
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- By JM McNab
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The Shady Origin Stories Of Beloved American Traditions
Traditions are time-honored and important to our country. Even if they're all stolen.
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- By AM Smiley
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- 273
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5 Eerie Conspiracies Theorists Were Right About All Along
Every once in awhile, what may look like a stupid conspiracy theory turns out to be something that very much happened.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Sergei Korolev
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6 Politicians Who Abused Their Power Like Bratty Toddlers
The following politicians managed to disregard the law and all rules of a civilized society in the funniest ways possible.
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- By Abraham Mireles, Cassowary Wong
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- 220
6 Simple-Looking Artworks That Were Really Tough To Pull Off
Art you picture as 'easy' requires mastering insanely complex techniques or, even worse, math.
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- By Rachel P.
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- 363
15 Underhanded Tricks By The Media To Make You Share Baloney News
If there's such thing as fact-checking on the internet, it's in extremely short supply.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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- 229
Parts Of The World You're Picturing Totally Wrong
Kalymykia is a Buddhist republic in Russia. You read that right.
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- By Michael Hossey
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5 Geniuses Ridiculed And Fired For Being Right Too Soon
Great ideas can be unfortunately difficult to recognize but extremely easy to dismiss ... until, of course, it's too late.
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- By Britni Patterson, Mordecai Jones
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10 Sped-Up GIFs That Turn Normal Stuff Horrifyingly Awesome
Suddenly sloths seem a little dangerous.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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- 138
6 Seemingly Innocent Places Secretly Teeming With Criminals
Everyone needs a place where they can blow off some steam, and it turns out that for celebrities that place is Waffle House.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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15 Reasons Why Young People Today Have It Tougher Than Ever
OK, so maybe all that whining has some merit.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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- 950
6 People Who Prove Sometimes You Really Should Give Up
Despite nobody on earth wanting a third 'Wayne's World,' some brave souls are still fighting for it.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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- 288