Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 Myths About Food You Believe Thanks To Jerk Companies
According to the very latest scientific data, you require food in order to live.
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- By Claudio Buttice
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6 Hidden Biases In Everyday Words (You Never Noticed Before)
We really need to think before we speak.
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- By Michael Dawson , Mike Bedard, Dan Hopper
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7 Everyday Heroes Who Mercilessly Trolled Racist Morons
Human society comes with a great number of diverse opinions, but there are at least some basic ideas we should all be able to agree on: Racism is bad, hate speech is unacceptable, and people who leave shopping carts in the middle of the parking lot are literally the devil.
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- By S Peter Davis
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5 Ways Applying For A Job Is Hopelessly Stacked Against You
Searching for a job is so much worse than you know.
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- By Rob Rose
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18 Reasons To End These Traditions
Turns out ‘because we always have’ isn’t a good reason to do things.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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The 5 Dumbest 'I Sacrifice Myself!' Deaths In Movie History
Sometimes a writer will know they want a beloved character to sacrifice themselves at the end of the second act, but they'll leave the details for later.
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- By Wes Corwin, Michael Garowee, Mark Bradley
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5 People Who Were The Repeat Victims Of WTF Coincidences
At some point, everybody has felt like they simply couldn't catch a break. But it's going to end eventually, right? Not always. Just look at these stories.
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- By Joel B. Kirk, Molly Khan, S. Aslam
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5 Neighbor Horror Stories (That Are Way Worse Than Yours)
Living in a society is great ... except for all the people who come along with it.
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- By Chris Fox
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How The Fashion World Glamorizes Rape, Abuse, And Murder
Contemporary fashion advertising is all about beautiful lifeless women, usually lying in puddles of artfully applied grime and contorted into broken, corpse-like sprawls.
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- By Andrea Meno
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Things That Are Supposed To Make You Feel Better, But Don't
Nothing is less reassuring than constantly being reassured.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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6 Flat-Out Crazy Conspiracy Theories (That Really Happened)
We can say with some certainty that the federal government is not, in fact, a front for the lizard people.
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- By Alex Hanton
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4 Famous Mascots (Who Have Needlessly Creepy Origin Stories)
Why would so many corporations give their seemingly mundane mascots backstories so dark they might have wandered out of a David Lynch film?
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- By Spencer Thew, James Kinneen, David Klesh
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6 Ghosts Who Solved Their Own Murders
Being the ghost of a murder victim must be so frustrating.
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- By Mark Hill
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The 6 Creepiest Stories Of 2017 (You Totally Missed)
It feels like the world is on fire sometimes, doesn't it? We're about to make everything so, so much worse.
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- By Alex Hanton, James Kinneen, Stephanie Shepard, Michael Battaglino
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5 Jaw-Dropping DIY Costumes (Made By Regular People)
You want to wear that 'This Is My Costume' T-shirt again this Halloween, you go right on ahead.
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- By Tiago Svn, Zanandi Botes, Alyssa Feller
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