Cracked Archive - Weird World
6 Nerd Culture Stereotypes That Are Way Older Than You Think
Unless your concept of a 'nerd' is a Depression-era newsie shooting pre-YouTube fan trailers, you might be surprised to learn that nerd culture has existed for way, way, way longer than you think.
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- By Gavin Jamieson
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420 9 Extreme Versions of Things You Loved as a Kid
Sit back and let your inner child scream with jealousy.
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- By R. Jason Benson, Ivan Farkas
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5 Real People Who Were Mistakenly Declared Dead
It seems like trying to convince the world that you're still alive is almost worse than just rolling over, taking one for the team, and politely dying.
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- By Robin Warder
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The 5 Biggest Disasters in the History of Marketing (Pt. 4)
If you misjudge your audience, your million-dollar advertising campaign can wind up costing you much more. These people didn't get that memo.
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- By Pat Carnell, Evan V. Symon
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5 Survival Stories Too Miraculous to Be Real
Death will claim every one of us. But some of us don't go down so easily.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Eric Yosomono, Josh Hrala, Monstroso Yojimbo
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5 Traits You Think You Control (But Totally Don't)
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- By Dennis Hong, Michael Hossey
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The 5 Most Insane Ways People Survived Animal Attacks
The following folks not only went up against some of Mother Nature's most dangerous killers and managed to survive, they did it by doing stuff action heroes would scoff at.
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- By Mark H.
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5 Ridiculously Offensive Ads That Somehow Got Approved
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- By A.C. Grimes
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5 Classic Children's Books With Horrible Hidden Messages
We're not saying these books are definitively bad for your kids, or that these messages are intentional. We're just saying, 'Waaaiiiit a minute.'
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Enormous Modern Ghost Towns You Won't Believe Exist
There are bad investments, and there are these: billion-dollar projects that entire governments just got bored of and abandoned, leaving around some pretty cool post-apocalyptic playsets
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- By Xavier Jackson
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5 Dick Moves Your Bank Pulls (You Won't Believe Are Legal)
Banks make it really hard to like them, and they do whatever they can to exploit their position in the shadiest ways imaginable.
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- By Spencer Lowe
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5 Disastrous Attempts at Political Commentary in Comic Books
Here are a few of the most ill-advised times a writer looked at a medium full of colorful superbeings and decided it was time to make a statement.
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- By Henrik Magnusson
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5 Byproducts of Modern Life That Are Burying Us in Garbage
It seems that the never-ending cycle of human progress has a nasty side effect of constantly threatening to bury us all under a mountain of crap.
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- By Eric Yosomono, J. Wisniewski, Ivan Farkas, Hillery Alley
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5 Insane Petty Crimes Committed by North Korea
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- By Joe Hicks
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5 Horrifying Ways an Ex Can Ruin Your Life With Nude Photos
Professor Annmarie Chiarini, Anisha Vora, and Dr. Holly Jacobs have a few things in common: They've all had explicit photos of themselves shared online, and they've all decided to do something about it.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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