Cracked Archive - Weird World
The 9 Most Baffling Monuments to Great People
The great monuments tend to also be simple -- Abe Lincoln's is just him sitting in a chair, Mount Rushmore is just a bunch of giant heads. But some sculptors decide to get creative, to create a memorial that will really blow people's minds. The results are often the stuff of nightmares.
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- By Chris Zeigler
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980 The 5 Most Insulting Ways Products Are Advertised to Men
Just as ads in the 1950s assumed that all women were housewives desperate for new ways to starch their husbands' shirts, advertisers today demonstrate an extremely low opinion of their male customers.
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- By Colin Murdock, Aren Wilborn
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The 9 Most Insane Board Games of All Time
We realize that advertising should be taken with a whole shaker of salt, especially when it comes to toys, where there's a long history of making products look better than they are (as multiple generations of Sea Monkeys owners can testify). These board game boxes, though, go beyond deceptive advertising and right into the realm of 'See, this is wh
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- By Tracy V.
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6 Popular Children's Books That Teach Kids Horrible Lessons
The cutesy, cartoony little picture books you find in the beanbag section of the library aren't actively teaching kids to idolize crack dealers or mock the disabled, right? Actually, some of the biggest names in the industry are practically seeding our children's brains with impending personality disorders.
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- By Jeff Beauvoir
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7 Outrageous Hoaxes That Actually Worked
Since society has had several thousand years of practice at recognizing con artists, you'd think we'd get pretty good at spotting them. But you'd be wrong. For a scam to succeed, it doesn't take any kind of special genius. Or even average genius.
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- By Dwayne Hoover, Dustin Koski
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5 Priceless Works of Art Destroyed by Unintentional Hilarity
Like a slapstick movie where the buffoon main character encounters a priceless work of art, and then accidentally destroys it in some hilarious way, a shocking number of the world's great pieces have in fact been ruined in this fashion.
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- By Siobhan McKeown
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5 Bizarre Ways You Can Brainwash a Courtroom
Some day you might wind up in front of a judge due to a 'hilarious' misunderstanding (or because you had to murder some dudes). If so, there are several things that can tip the scales of justice in your favor that have nothing to do with the law or evidence.
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- By Kathy Benjamin, Lillian Marx
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5 Real Judges Who Put the Most Evil Supervillain to Shame
It's one thing for a judge to be corrupt -- we sort of expect that to happen in all public jobs, because we watch the news. It's quite another for judges to be hilarious lunatics, criminally lazy schemers or just impossibly evil.
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- By E. Reid Ross, Tom Rodgers
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6 Nobodies Who Stumbled Into World Changing Discoveries
Some of the greatest historical finds have been stumbled across by random dudes just wandering around the neighborhood.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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6 Psychotic Punishments Doled Out by Famous Superheroes
Sometimes a hero's unwavering moral code results in the meting out of far more cruel and unusual punishments than a quick, clean death.
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- By Drew Anderson
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If Airplane Safety Instructions Were Honest
Plus, loads of extra seatback reading material!
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- By Winston Rowntree
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The 5 Most Insane Examples of Chinese Counterfeiting
The amount of work and creativity the Chinese underworld puts into their fakes is so damn impressive that you have to wonder why they'd ever need to steal other people's ideas.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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6 Iconic Things You Won't Believe Began as Publicity Stunts
Apparently, some of the most iconic places and rituals in the world were started purely to create 'buzz.'
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- By Erik Germ, Tracy V.
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Cracked Round-Up: Avoid Crack Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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6 Tiny Mistakes That Caused Apocalyptic Explosions
Settle in and celebrate the fact that no matter how badly you've screwed up at work, you've probably never caused an explosion that destroyed half of a city.
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- By Douglas A. McDonnell, Sohrab Merchant
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