Cracked Archive - Weird World
6 Horrific Things Discovered in the Last Place You'd Expect
Sometimes you hear about people finding valuable paintings hidden inside old frames at a garage sale or pirate gold beneath a dusty old restaurant on the northern California coast. Other times you click on the news and see people who find human skeletons under their hotel mattresses and taxidermy cat heads in their Happy Meals.
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- By Sara Ohlms
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826 The 5 Creepiest Ways Major Companies Are Watching You
The information age has been steadily providing technology that is allowing corporations to get to know their customers better than their own families.
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- By Alaric Penname
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- 1001
5 Amazing Stories of One Complaint Ruining It for Everyone
It turns out that sometimes a vocal minority can make a world of difference, even if that minority is exactly one person and his or her complaint is completely stupid.
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- By Kelly Stone
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5 Major News Stories That Forgot to Tell You the Best Part
More often than not, these missing details change everything we learned about the story in the first place.
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- By Dennis Hong, Douglas A. McDonnell
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5 Mind-Blowing Works of Art That You Aren't Allowed to See
Truly, art is made to enrich and be enjoyed by all. Well, except for this stuff.
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- By Evan V. Symon , Isaac Cabe
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- 607
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Cracked Round-Up: Cosmonaut Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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10 Baffling Safety Products Clearly Aimed at Paranoid People
What this particular demographic may lack in reason they make up for in income, and there's no shortage of products designed to prey on their irrational fears for a few extra (thousand) bucks.
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- By Stephen West
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7 Modern Ghost Towns That Look Like Sci-Fi Movies
We know what you're here for, sci-fi aficionados. Let's just get straight to the futuristic abandoned stuff, shall we?
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- By Eric Yosomono
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6 Mind-Blowing Substances That Laugh in the Face of Physics
These materials are often hard to get and/or incredibly dangerous, but they're worth it for the cool factor alone.
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- By Kevin Falcon
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- 1057
5 Unrealistic Movie Cliches That Are Scientifically Accurate
Often absurd or simplistic tools that filmmakers use to get their points across are more based in reality than you might think.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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6 Famous Geniuses You Won't Believe Were Perverts
None of what you're about to read necessarily detracts from any of the great things they accomplished -- we're not saying that. We're just saying that behind closed doors, they liked to get freaky.
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- By Paige Turner
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The 5 Most Misguided April Fools' Pranks of All Time
April Fools' Day is great in concept. The problem is that a very large portion of the population has no idea what a prank actually is, or how they work.
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- By Adam Wears, Chris Scott
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- 585
Like to Write? Like Money? Write for Cracked!
Seriously -- we're getting tired of playing in our swimming pools full of $100 bills..
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- By Kristi Harrison
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- 337
Cracked Round-Up: Train Stabbing Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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5 Iconic Characters Who Got Insane Reboots in Foreign Comics
When it comes to translating some characters into foreign comics, it seems like pretty much anything goes.
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- By Juan Arteaga, Maxwell Yezpitelok
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- 493
