Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 Beloved Groups Everyone Forgot Did Terrible Things
How could they possibly do any wrong? Oh boy, you know where this is going ...
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- By Dawn Morrow
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- 243
5 Surreal Realities Black Children Face
Sometimes we focus so much on the way adults are treated, we forget to look after the children.
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- By Alyssa Feller, Joel B. Kirk, J.D. Bennet
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- 459
20 Common Behaviors That Are Actually Super Creepy
You might be inadvertently creeping somebody out.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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- 432
The 6 Stupidest Ways Governments Tried To Assassinate People
Spies are not always creative people.
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- By Alex Hanton, Spencer Thew
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27 Strange Facts About Super-Popular Mascots
Horatio Magellan Crunch is just the tip of the iceberg.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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- 117
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6 Things We Only Believe Today Because Of Propaganda
Some of the most seemingly innocent facts we never even think to question were in fact originally churned out by the propaganda machine.
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- By Adam Wears, James Kinneen, E.M. Caris, Britni Patterson
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- 146
5 Heartbreaking Side Effects Of The Opioid Crisis In America
People have been getting loaded ever since Julius Wine ate all those bad grapes, and we're mostly OK with it. But prescription opioid painkillers, our latest drug epidemic, is a different beast entirely.
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- By Abraham Mireles, Jordan Breeding, Markos Hasiotis, Andrea Meno
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- 219
4 Surprising Ways Huge Disasters Ruined People's Lives
Disasters ruin people's lives. It's pretty much the only thing they do.
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- By Adam Wears
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- 96
18 Stupid Scams You Can't Believe You Fell For
Schadenfreude or life lessons: Take your pick.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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- 275
5 'Eco-Friendly' Products That Failed In Hilarious Ways
Sometimes a product fails because everybody in charge of the launch was criminally inept, fist-eatingly crazy, chemically stupid, or all of the above.
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- By James Kinneen
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- 107
6 Signs That Disney Is Trying To Take Over The World
Soon Disney will rule all media with a white-gloved iron fist.
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- By Cedric Voets
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- 143
28 Baldfaced Lies (Told To Us By Parents)
Dear Mom, your pants are super on fire.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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- 224
5 Underreported Acts Of Total Madness By Modern Countries
You'd think that at this point in history, we'd be semi-competent at good old-fashioned diplomacy.
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- By Steven Assarian
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- 118
American Flops That Are Insanely Popular In Other Countries
This should be known as The Hasselhoff Effect.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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- 191
12 Big Pop Culture Things (That Aren't Even Real)
The good news is, you can now correct other people about this stuff.
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- By Timon DJ Spajic, E. Reid Ross
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- 172