Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 People Who Escaped Death By Being Lazy
Nothing makes a person feel more alive than narrowly escaping death, especially if it was due to a thrilling display of reflexes and quick thinking. But then you have the people who escaped their doom via pure accident, incompetence or irresponsibility.
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- By Sara Ohlms
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865 The 6 Creepiest Sexual Encounters in Comic Book History
Comic books have mastered the art of finding new and creative ways of making sex bizarrely unappealing, even to people who read comic books.
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- By Diana McCallum, E.D. Gonzalez
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5 Supposedly Badass Criminals Caught in Embarrassing Ways
Criminal masterminds do exist; there are bad guys who have gotten away with their deeds for decades without ever leaving enough evidence behind for the cops to make a case. Yet, when these guys eventually get caught, the reason is usually exactly as stupid as that time your neighborhood meth head got nailed for trying to steal a cop car with the co
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- By Douglas A. McDonnell, Evan V. Symon
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5 True Tales of Good Fortune With Horribly Cruel Plot Twists
If life loves to beat one lesson into our heads over and over again, it's this: If something is too good to be true, it almost always is. Just ask these people.
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- By Erik Germ
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The 17 Most Important Things Said About the 2012 NFL Draft
For the handful of you who weren't following along live, we covered the 2012 NFL draft live last night. On the job from the Cracked war-room, we had Soren Bowie (our resident NFL expert and a die hard Broncos fan) as well as Cody Johnston (has a last name that sounds sort of like that of Magic and Michael Johnson, who are both athletes).
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- By CRACKED Staff
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6 Old-Timey Comics Straight Out of a (Bad) Acid Trip
Why is it that Batman (1939) and Superman (1938) endured when all of the other comic book characters from that era were forgotten? Well, it's partly because they were absolutely insane. Behold the dark madness ...
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- By Pip Ury
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6 'Luxury' Spa Treatments for the Extremely Rich and Insane
Different people find different things relaxing. Some people enjoy a nice massage, others enjoy elephants stepping on them.
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- By Isaac Cabe
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18 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped (Part 9)
As we've demonstrated many times before in our most popular feature on Cracked, the forces of the universe love the sound of people shouting 'Fake!' at their computer screens, and photographers love to capture the proof.
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- By Joe Russo
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6 Nobodies Who Turned Into Superheroes Without Warning
Next time someone tells you to get a hobby, might we suggest stopping suicides?
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- By Paul K Pickett
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Cracked Round-Up: Prank Week Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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5 People Who Held Grudges Well Past the Point of Sanity
True story: This is an article full of people so angry that one tracked down the author and threatened him.
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- By Xavier Jackson, Chris Radomile
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6 Artists You Didn't Know You Were a Fan Of
These guys impacted the art scene forever, and changed things in our world, infecting pop culture in astounding ways. And you have no idea who any of them are.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 7 Most Insane Ways People Legally Avoided Paying Taxes
The truth is that the IRS isn't nearly as hardass as people think. There is a huge range of things you're allowed to write off from your taxes if you can make some kind of argument. And some of them are truly insane.
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- By Dennis Fulton
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Cracked Round-Up: Life Lessons About Drinking Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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The 5 Creepiest Disappearances That Nobody Can Explain
When people vanish, it usually turns out they were killed or kidnapped, or at least they were very likely to have been. Usually we have some kind of an answer. Usually -- but not always.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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