Cracked Archive - Weird World
The 6 Most Amazing Things Ever Traded For Pointless Crap
With a few seemingly lateral moves, a healthy dose of persistence, and a few metric craptons of luck, some folks started from the bottom, now they here.
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- By Alexander Pan
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347 5 Absurdly Badass Action Figures of Unlikely Characters
Not everybody in an action film gets to be the hero. But as long as money exists, those wimps will still get a toy version of themselves.
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- By JM McNab
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- 303
5 Surprising Things That Are Secretly Making You Fat
The Western world is getting fatter. But there are far stranger forces than Loaded Doritos working to embiggen your ass.
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- By CRACKED Staff
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- 560
6 Real Police Screw-Ups That Put Chief Wiggum to Shame
Let's just say right off the top that police officers have a tough job, and there's literally no one else we want to call if somebody with a crowbar is chasing us down an alley.
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- By A.C. Grimes, David W. Parsons
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8 Insanely Valuable Items You Probably Owned (and Threw Out)
And no, we're not talking about that mint condition Batman Issue No. 1 -- we're talking about seemingly worthless junk.
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- By Drew Anders
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- 771
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5 Terrifying Things I Learned While Buying Guns on Facebook
When journalist Harmon Leon posed as an extremely creepy person with cash in hand, he found that it's alarmingly easy to get some of the most dangerous weapons in the world with nothing more than an Internet connection.
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- By Harmon Leon
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- 1649
5 Insane Things 'Deadliest Catch' Leaves Out About My Job
Fishing in the choppy, frozen waters off Alaska is the worst of the worst. We spoke with Dash Adams to learn just how bad it can get.
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- By Kier Harris, Dash Adams
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The 5 Dumbest Powers Ever Given to Famous Superheroes
No one remembers these -- in part because they were phased out by the comics before they hit the big time, and in part because they're underwear-on-the-head stupid.
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- By Tristan Cooper, Matthew Thomas
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- 506
7 Famous Artists You Didn't Know Were Perverts (Pt. 2)
Pretty much every creative type has a hidden horn-dog side
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- By Raoni Lacerda, Michael Hossey
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6 People With Amazing Yet Totally Useless Abilities
With useless power comes neat bar tricks.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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- 238
6 Impressive Works of Architecture in the Middle of Nowhere
This stuff has absolutely no business being in these places.
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- By Eric Yosomono, Robert Friedrich, Simone B.
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- 271
6 Famous Works of Art You Didn't Know Were Vicious Insults
No matter how rich and famous you get, you never grow beyond the need for petty, passive-aggressive insults toward those who've wronged you.
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- By Bennett Rea
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- 632
6 Children's Games Clearly Designed By Psychopaths
There's nothing quite as wholesome as a board game. But you might be surprised by just how dark your awkward family get-together's go-to form of entertainment can be.
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- By JM McNab
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- 348
7 Pieces of Brain-Rotting Crap Made by Artistic Geniuses
Even the greatest artists of all time occasionally produce something they're not proud of, because no one in history has ever batted 1000.
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- By JM McNab
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- 434
5 Successful People Who Everyone Forgets Are Exposed Frauds
To make a career out of defrauding the general public, get exposed as a fraud, and then keep right on defrauding people as if nothing ever happened takes a special kind of turd with balls of industrial steel.
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- By Sammy Trujillo
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- 1872
