Cracked Archive - Weird World

5 Ways To Commit Crimes On Horseback

Crimes used to involve a lot more passion -- and ropin' and rustlin' and 'yippee-ki-yays.'

By Chris Bucholz
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January 09, 2016

11 Insane Creatures You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped

Is it kind of weird that we want to lick this moth? it's weird isn't it?

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By J.N. Nelson
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January 09, 2016

7 Awful Things I Learned About Surgery By Helping Surgeons

WARNING: The following is gross and terrifying and is not for the faint of heart.

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By Anonymous, Ryan Menezes
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January 08, 2016

5 Surprising Ways Toys Made The World A Better Place

What is it about LEGOs that makes them such a popular request from kids involved with the Make-A-Wish Foundation?

By E. Reid Ross
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January 07, 2016

6 Creepy Schemes Companies Use To Bury You In Debt

Your car, education, and house are only the tip of the debt iceberg. Beneath the sea is a whole other landmass of ways the world wants to keep you in the red.

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By Jim Avery
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January 07, 2016

6 Important Things That Are Done With Insanely Outdated Tech

Imagine a movie from the '80s, with all it's flashy, hilariously corny technology. Now imagine that is a real thing and still being used by our government.

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By Jeff Feazell
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January 07, 2016

4 Reasons the Spoiler Alert Is Going Away Forever

Regardless of how you feel about spoilers, there are a few things we need to take a step back and consider before someone gets hurt.

By Amanda Mannen
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January 06, 2016

6 Times Family Entertainment Went Horrifically Wrong

Unsurprisingly, when you gather a bunch of animals in one place, the possibility only increases that things will go wrong in very NC-17 ways.

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By Adam Wears
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January 06, 2016

The Mile High Club Sucks: 5 Things Flight Attendants Know

Most of us get to see air travel only from the perspective of weary passengers. But what is life like for the people who call an airplane their office?

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By Anna Dakota, Anonymous
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January 06, 2016

5 Real People That Sound Like Fictional Badasses

Apparently being a friggin' beast master is a viable career path.

By Robert Brockway
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January 05, 2016

4 Good Ideas That Got Ruined By Idiots

Somewhere along the line, people decided that any character in a story who is good at everything and doesn't have an obvious, crippling flaw is a Mary Sue, and furthermore that this is a bad thing.

By J.F. Sargent
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January 05, 2016

6 Shockingly Brutal Realities Of An Organic Dairy Farm

We spoke with an actual live-in organic farm hand to learn what life is really like at the place where all of our childhood dogs went and lived happily ever after.

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By Anonymous, Carolyn Burke
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January 05, 2016

5 Things I've Learned As An Adult With No Driver's License

All of the 'practical' excuses I had invented were a veil for what was really happening: I was (am) terrified of driving.

By Stephanie Georgopulos
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January 04, 2016

I Got A Hand Transplant: 5 Horrifying Realities

Jane Halston became one of the first people in the world to receive a successful hand transplant. However, it wasn't all sunshine and thumb wars. Here's what the media didn't tell us.

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