Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 Harmless Superstitions With Horrifying Global Consequences
If you step back and take a broader look at the ripples that such preposterous notions send butterfly-effecting across the world, you find that things we tend to think of as 'harmless' superstitions can actually be anything but.
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- By Shannon Dell
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16 Animals Doing Things (That Shouldn't Be Possible)
We graciously accept and welcome these future animal overlords.
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6 Popular Games That Were Meant to Be Totally Different
We're always fascinated by the messy process by which pop culture gets made.
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- By Michael Kane, David Jones
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5 Emergency Drills That Went Horribly Wrong
Here are five examples of what happens when people take the 'pants on fire' approach to emergency preparedness.
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- By Chris Fox
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5 Fitness Myths You Believe (That Don't Work At All)
Beware when you hear these claims.
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- By Michael Hossey, Ivan Farkas
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5 Popular Figures of Speech That Have Creepy Hidden Meanings
Don't be so quick to dismiss the importance of metaphors.
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- By Cracked Writers
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5 Insane Things Comic Books Believe Women's Bodies Can Do
It's not only a matter of relying on unrealistic body standards, but doing it to a degree that we're not sure these characters could even survive.
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- By Caitlin Donovan
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5 Staggeringly Huge Disasters Caused by Small Minded Idiots
If you're having a crappy day at work, just know it could be much, much worse.
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- By Zachary Frey
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5 Moral Crusaders Caught Being the Worst Hypocrite Possible
We're wondering how many of the world's crusaders aren't just trying to compensate for something they're doing on the side.
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- By Kevin Phelan
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5 Iconic Fantasy Characters Whose Bodies Wouldn't Work
Sometimes the craziest attributes of a mythological creature -- the things that actually make it impossible -- aren't always what you think.
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- By Justin Crockett, Nathan Murphy
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6 Insane Things Happening Throughout Mexican Cartel Culture
Where Hollywood does a pretty impressive job of glorifying criminals, it hasn't got shit on Mexico's utterly insane cartel culture.
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- By Bastian Espada
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9 Foreign Terms More Awful Than Any English Profanity
Some languages have words for concepts so weird or off-putting that we can thank the stars we don't have any use for them in everyday English.
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- By Cornelius Heyer
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6 Baffling First Drafts of Classic Novels
What if we told you that there are extra scenes of your favorite book, written by your favorite writer, that you've never read before? Awesome, right? No so fast.
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- By Karah Sutton
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20 Bonkers Fictional Universe Stats
What happens when you analyze fictional worlds, where the rules are a bit different? The numbers are even more mind-boggling and impressive.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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7 Disasters Everyone Survived (That a Highlander Wouldn't)
We can only imagine the survivors of the following incidents were forever looking over their shoulders to see if the relentless specter of death was trying to sneak up on them to finish the job.
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- By Douglas A. McDonnell, Zachary Frey
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