Cracked Archive - Weird World

Hey. Hey there, drugs. Sit down. Yeah, right there on the mirror is fine.

• By Chris Bucholz
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• August 12, 2015

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Throughout recorded history, we've been covering up our faces (or other people's, by force) for all sorts of practical reasons.

• By E. Reid Ross
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• August 07, 2015

What does Hollywood get wrong about war? Well, everything.

• By Chris Janney
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• August 07, 2015

Nostalgia is generally a pleasant experience, but soon you're going to find yourself nostalgic for nostalgia, because nostalgia as we know it is dying off.

• By Felix Clay
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• August 05, 2015

After over 10 years of travel, I've learned one thing above all else: When you travel, you're bound to meet some major assholes who think their shit doesn't stink.

• By Matthew Kepnes
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• August 05, 2015