Cracked Archive - Weird World

6 Important Things That Are Done With Insanely Outdated Tech

Imagine a movie from the '80s, with all it's flashy, hilariously corny technology. Now imagine that is a real thing and still being used by our government.

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By Jeff Feazell
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January 07, 2016

4 Reasons the Spoiler Alert Is Going Away Forever

Regardless of how you feel about spoilers, there are a few things we need to take a step back and consider before someone gets hurt.

By Amanda Mannen
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January 06, 2016

6 Times Family Entertainment Went Horrifically Wrong

Unsurprisingly, when you gather a bunch of animals in one place, the possibility only increases that things will go wrong in very NC-17 ways.

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By Adam Wears
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January 06, 2016

The Mile High Club Sucks: 5 Things Flight Attendants Know

Most of us get to see air travel only from the perspective of weary passengers. But what is life like for the people who call an airplane their office?

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By Anna Dakota, Anonymous
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January 06, 2016

5 Real People That Sound Like Fictional Badasses

Apparently being a friggin' beast master is a viable career path.

By Robert Brockway
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January 05, 2016

4 Good Ideas That Got Ruined By Idiots

Somewhere along the line, people decided that any character in a story who is good at everything and doesn't have an obvious, crippling flaw is a Mary Sue, and furthermore that this is a bad thing.

By J.F. Sargent
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January 05, 2016

6 Shockingly Brutal Realities Of An Organic Dairy Farm

We spoke with an actual live-in organic farm hand to learn what life is really like at the place where all of our childhood dogs went and lived happily ever after.

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By Anonymous, Carolyn Burke
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January 05, 2016

5 Things I've Learned As An Adult With No Driver's License

All of the 'practical' excuses I had invented were a veil for what was really happening: I was (am) terrified of driving.

By Stephanie Georgopulos
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January 04, 2016

I Got A Hand Transplant: 5 Horrifying Realities

Jane Halston became one of the first people in the world to receive a successful hand transplant. However, it wasn't all sunshine and thumb wars. Here's what the media didn't tell us.

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By Amanda Mannen, Anonymous
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January 04, 2016

The 5 Most Insanely Disturbing Religious Artifacts

Maybe let's reconsider identifying dismembered body parts as religious artifacts.

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By Cathal McGuigan, Laura H
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January 03, 2016

5 Staples Of Wisdom That Need To Be Retired

These sayings should never have been invented in the first place, and it's only thanks to the work of people with head injuries and hack writers that they've survived to this day.