Cracked Archive - Weird World
8 Obvious Lies That People Believed For Waaay Too Long
You can get surprisingly far if you lie is brazen enough.
- By Mark Hill, Timothy Brown, Kayla Layaoen
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- August 16, 2015
5 Famous Bible Stories With Logical Scientific Explanations
If you pause faith for a moment and look at the Bible through the cold, unfeeling monocle of science, it doesn't hold up. Right? Well, let's not be so hasty.
- By Stian Hansen
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- August 16, 2015
5 Impossible Things You're Not Supposed To Talk Back About
Sometimes, you keep quiet because speaking, while it might make you feel better, doesn't do anything to help the situation. Here are the five times it's the hardest to keep quiet.
- By Gladstone
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- August 15, 2015
Wikipedia Hates Women: 4 Dark Sides of The Site We All Use
Basically, it seems like Wikipedia has some weird problems with regard to gender -- so what's up?
- By J.F. Sargent, Abigail Brady
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- August 15, 2015
15 Things Parents Should Know When Telling Drugs About Kids
Hey. Hey there, drugs. Sit down. Yeah, right there on the mirror is fine.
- By Chris Bucholz
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- August 12, 2015
6 Painful Ad Fails You Won't Believe Companies Didn't Notice
What happens when your marketing team is so inept that your inspirational advertisement actually does more harm than good?
- By Michael Dawson
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- August 12, 2015
5 Real 'Conspiracies' Confirmed By People Swept Up In Them
Sometimes you just walk through your front door one bright and sunny morning and smack straight into some wide-ranging and lethal conspiracy orchestrated by the powers that be.
- By Zachary Frey
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- August 12, 2015
6 Ugly Facts Of Life In Communist Cuba
We spoke to those who lived under Fidel Castro's rule. Here's what we learned.
- By R. Jason Benson, Vivian Moreau, Jose Manuel , Jose Suarez
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- August 12, 2015
6 Artists Who Failed So Hard They Ended Up Succeeding
Some art isn't just 'bad' like a carton of sour milk is bad; it's curiously bad like the smell of a mosh pit of bank-tellers' attempted small talk.
- By J.F. Sargent
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- August 11, 2015
5 Creepy Unsolved Mysteries (That Have Totally Been Solved)
I've done my best to dig out the most likely truth behind some of my favorite mystery tales. Let's speculate!
- By Pauli Poisuo
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- August 11, 2015
The 5 Most Spectacular On-The-Job F#@% Ups By The Police
The best thing you can say about police misconduct in the headlines is that they're often cases of split-second decisions gone wrong. The worst, well, you're about to find out ...
- By Zachary Frey
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- August 11, 2015
5 Dumb Things I Saw (And Did) While In Charge Of US Nukes
It's not super easy to get former nuclear missileers to talk. But our source had just been kicked out of the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command for reasons we'll explain momentarily.
- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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- August 11, 2015
5 Insane Coincidences That Saved People's Lives
Here are five real stories of unfortunate folks whose bad luck ended up saving them from horribly unpleasant deaths.
- By Robin Warder
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- August 10, 2015
5 Maddening Things Poor People Can't Get Out From Under
Being poor comes with an unexpected plethora of bizarre side effects.
- By Ivan Farkas, Vicki Veritas, J.D. Robinson
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- August 09, 2015
A Harrowing Tale Of Jury Duty Madness
At times, my account can get a little ugly, and it's occasionally frightening. But like America itself, it never stops trying to be both of those things.
- By Luis Prada
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- August 08, 2015
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