Cracked Archive - Weird World

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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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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Cracked Round-Up: Prank Week Edition
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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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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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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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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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6 Amazing Rich Kid Versions of the Toys You Grew Up With
It's hard not to wish you could, just once, re-live childhood as that rich kid who had everything. If by some sorcery that should ever occur, we recommend these.
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Cracked Round-Up: A Message from Cracked's Legal Department
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7 Old People Who Gave Retirement the Finger
These old people not only have more ambition than most of us despite being well past their prime, but they're also doing jobs most of us wouldn't even begin to consider.
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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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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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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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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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