Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 'People' You Didn’t Realize Were Fictional Characters
Lots of figures from history and pop culture are the product of either some marketing campaign or just bad record keeping. Either way, centuries from now, people will probably still think that at one time these people existed.
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- By Kelly Stone
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1630 5 Insane Theme Parks You Won't Believe Were Almost Built
Here are five theme parks you'll never ever attend, unless you know the secret of turning a dump truck full of venture capital into a time machine.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The 5 Stupidest Ways Important People Leaked Deadly Secrets
Government leaks tend to be less Mission: Impossible and more 'Guy mistook secret documents for toilet paper.'
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- By Evan V. Symon , Chris J.
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Cracked Round-Up: Free Love Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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5 Heartwarming Accomplishments by Hardened Prison Inmates
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- By Scott Pearson
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6 Mind-Blowing Pop Culture Questions Answered by Super Fans
Thankfully, the Internet is home to a relentless army of hardcore nerds who are willing to do the work of sifting through all of pop culture to come up with the hard numbers.
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- By Drew Anderson, Josh Hrala, Robert Rosati
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5 Horrifying Details Hidden in Classic Children's Cartoons
Children's franchises like to put up a front that's all lollipops and rainbows, but scratch the surface and you find that those lollipops are produced by child slave labor, while all those rainbows are the offal resulting from a mass unicorn slaughter.
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- By Elsa Moriarty
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The 5 Creepiest Smear Campaigns Launched by Powerful Groups
There are many ways to deal with criticism: You can address it with counterarguments, you can use it to improve yourself, you can ignore it ... or you can spend inordinate amounts of money trying to nuke the reputation of your critics in the hopes that it will make people stop listening to them.
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- By Danny Gallagher
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The 7 Most WTF Houses People Actually Live In
Sure, they're rare, and you might not want to actually live in them, but it's at least possible that one day you could set up shop in one of these.
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- By Richie Ryan
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Cracked Round-Up: Summer Politics Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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9 Insane Cities You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
Humans are infinitely creative and resilient, and that they will live in exotic locales that challenge the limits of logic and/or sanity.
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- By Eric Yosomono, Ivan Farkas
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5 Important Things You Won't Believe Comic Books Invented
There are times in history when comic book pages splashed to life and changed the world in amazing ways or predicted the hell out of some pretty major stuff.
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- By Diana McCallum
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5 Craziest Ways Men Have Censored Female Sexuality
Some governments seem to go out of their way to come up with the most ridiculous measures to preserve the modesty of their citizens.
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- By Hiram H. Huckabee
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6 Mysterious People at the Heart of Unsolvable Mysteries
Occasionally, people will go down in history for some great deed or misdeed without anyone ever knowing who the hell they were.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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Cracked Round-Up: The Shittiest Week Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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