Cracked Archive - Weird World
7 True Stories of Animals Rescuing People from Certain Death
Apparently, lions, gorillas and even whales throwing themselves in harm's way to save some helpless human.
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1163 The 5 Most Terrifying Rites of Passage from Around the World
There are some cultures out there that don't consider puberty a real rite of passage unless it involves something so gruesome that most of us wouldn't do it as adults.
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- By Richy Craven, Luv Sheth
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6 Bizarre Factors That Predict Every Presidential Election
Wouldn't it be great if you could shut out that political noise and predict the outcome of every presidential election based on completely ridiculous and arbitrary factors? Guess what? You totally can.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 8 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 4)
There are some places you can take one look at and be certain -- just from a process of pure and logical deduction -- that they're home to terrible monsters.
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- By Robert Brockway, Cezary Jan Strusiewicz, Andy Keher
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13 Old-Timey Photos That Prove History Was Haunted
Old-timey people were insane. Like Lovecraftian-world-of-horrors insane.
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- By Mark Hill
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7 Creepy Urban Legends That Happen to Be True (Part 6)
Well, it's that time of year again. Specifically, the time of year when we make you shit your pants with stories that sound like they must have been made up, but are actually terrifyingly true.
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- By Nathan Birch
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6 Real Museums Straight Out of Your Nightmares
In our continuing mission to ruin your life completely, here are some museums that will have you sleeping with a nightlight for the next few years.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , J. Wisniewski, Itzhak J. Czukor
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The 6 Most Eerily Convincing Ghost Videos on YouTube
Science has found zero empirical evidence for the existence of ghosts, aliens, demons or any other supernatural creature and these videos will surely not fool an expert in video fakery. Unless he or she watches them alone, late at night, in the dark. Then they become very convincing.
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- By M. Asher Cantrell
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5 Creepy Coincidences You Won't Believe Actually Happened
The rational part of our brain tells us that there is nothing weird about coincidences. We're here to tell it to shut its pie hole.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 B.S. Political Arguments You Hear Every Election Season
Look, we're not going to try to sway you on any one issue, but you should know that there are some factual points that almost everyone gets wrong.
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- By Patrick McCarty, Alex Race
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Cracked Round-Up: Debategasm Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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7 Horrifying Uses of the Human Body to Create Art
Here are the most insane things people have done to themselves in the name of art -- the end result may still be ridiculous and it may still be bullshit, but nobody could call these people lazy.
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- By Rayan Tofique
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5 Famous Artists Who Tried to Destroy Their Own Work
For artists, it must be complete agony to see their hard-labored brainchildren banned, censored or outright destroyed -- which makes it all the more baffling when they choose to do it themselves.
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- By Drew Anderson
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The 6 Most Hilariously Insane Overreactions of All Time
Even if you've never, say, pulled a gun on somebody who cut you off in traffic, you've probably only imagined yourself doing it. Not everyone is capable of such restraint.
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- By Xavier Jackson
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5 Everyday Things You Won't Believe Are Copyrighted
Since all of human history consists of people thinking of ways to take good ideas and make them terrible, these days copyright laws have been taken to absurd extremes.
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- By C. Coville, Ajay Kumar, Karl Smallwood, Andrew Marinus
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