Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 Insane True Stories Of Buying The House From Hell
I've worked in the home improvement industry for over a decade, and as a result of that, I will never own my own house. I've seen too many folks left with their asses hanging in the breeze.
- By Pauli Poisuo
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- November 06, 2015
7 Classic Children's Books With Shockingly Dark Backstories
It turns out it was the private and horrific torments of total strangers that taught you the joys of imagination.
- By Mark Hill
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- November 06, 2015
5 Things You Learn Professionally Squatting In AWarehouse
All over the world you'll find a different kind of squatter community, involving hundreds of people -- often artists -- who live their lives outside the direct control of the law. We visited a couple to see what it's like.
- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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- November 06, 2015
6 Bizarre Wardrobe Life Hacks That Science Says Work
Clothing does more amazing things than just cover shameful torsos and pendulous genitals.
- By Rachel P.
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- November 05, 2015
4 Uncomfortable Taboos Every Couple Fights About Eventually
A real relationship full of shared bills and wasted hours flicking through Netflix only to watch regular TV instead because nothing's on. These arguments are pretty much inevitable.
- By Felix Clay
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- November 04, 2015
5 Things I Learned Slaughtering Millions Of Chickens
We spoke to Sam, a supervisor at a large-scale chicken farm, about how they manage to kill and package millions of birds a week. Here's what we learned.
- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz, Anonymous
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- November 03, 2015
5 Weirdly Stressful Aspects of America's Sneaker Obsession
If you've ever wondered how shoes came to be such a huge obsession with the youth of this nation and, more importantly, why it stresses people out as much as it does, I have the answers.
- By Jawn Louis
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- November 02, 2015
4 Brutal Realities Of Treating Chronic Pain
Amanda is part cyborg... kind of. She has a spinal cord stimulator implant, and told us how this all works.
- By Anna Dakota, Anonymous
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- November 02, 2015
5 Hobbies You Loved As A Child (And Why They Suck)
Were adolescence and all its assorted activities really what our nostalgia-prone brains cut them out to be?
- By Pauli Poisuo
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- November 01, 2015
6 Pleasant Surprises About Political Myths You Had All Wrong
Even the most straightforward political truths you've always heard aren't nearly as simple as people would like you to believe.
- By Natalie Vail
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- November 01, 2015
6 Things No One Considers Before Starting A Monkey Business
The phrase 'monkey business' is normally meant metaphorically. But what if it wasn't?
- By Chris Bucholz
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- October 31, 2015
5 Shocking Confessions Of The Worst Salesman In The World
Despite seeing a road that was entirely made out of obstacles, I pursued my new career as The Most Annoying Man In The World.
- By Daniel Dockery
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- October 31, 2015
6 Real-Life Horror Movies Your History Teacher Skipped Over
Our modern world was made possible by a whole lot of superstition, cruelty, and teeth harvesting on the part of our forefathers.
- By Jacopo della Quercia
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- October 30, 2015
9 Unbelievable Urban Legends (That Happen To Be True)
Maybe read these with the lights on.
- By Nathan Birch
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- October 29, 2015
The 5 Most Evil Ways Anyone Ever Got Rich
It turns out there have been plenty of psychopathic killers in history for whom a lifetime of mayhem and mutilation was just their way of paying the bills.
- By B.T. Doran
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- October 29, 2015
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