Cracked Archive - Weird World
The 5 Craziest Soldiers of Fortune To Ever Cash a Paycheck
It takes a certain breed of person to be a mercenary. And that breed is batshit insane.
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- By Xavier Jackson
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377 6 Things They Say Hurt Careers (That Statistics Say Help)
It turns out that many of the ways we intuitively believe we're improving our success in the workforce are totally wrong. If you want to get ahead, you'd be better advised to just let yourself go.
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- By Mike Cooney
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6 Reasons We're In Another 'Book-Burning' Period in History
What's contained in this article is going to make 80 percent of you want to punch me in the face.
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- By S Peter Davis
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6 B.S. Myths You Probably Believe About America's 'Enemies'
Spend five minutes listening to politicians and pundits talk about countries like Iran and North Korea, and you walk away thinking the world is a scary place. But politicians have agendas, and pundits want viewers. They aren't always the most reliable sources, but they're usually the loudest.
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- By Mark Hill
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Cracked Round-Up: Central America Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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The 5 Most Epic Battles of Will That Would Not End
Let's take a moment to salute the athletes, politicians and warriors who kept up a fight long after a reasonable person would have said, 'Fine, you win.'
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- By CRACKED Staff, Paul K Pickett
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6 Prison Jobs That Are Probably Better Than Yours
Fortunately, there are several ways to spin a prison term to a potential employer. Depending on the nature of the crime and which jurisdiction it was committed in, you can wind up with a job that, to be frank, is probably cooler than the one you have now.
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- By Benjamin Buso
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6 Places That Are Shockingly Easy to Break Into
It turns out that the only thing keeping most of these places safe is that not a lot of people actually try to get in.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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5 People Who Screwed Things Up for Everybody
Things didn't have to be as messed up as they are now, and it only takes a few assholes to ruin life for the rest of us.
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- By Robert Evans
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Cracked Round-Up: Natural Selection Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Things Ever Caught by Fishermen
If you're fishing in the right place, the other end of your line might as well be in deep space for all we know about the bottom of the ocean. Of course, what you drag up is usually in the realm of what you were expecting. Other times, it seems like it's straight out of Hollywood.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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The 6 Most WTF Special Edition Comics Ever Released
It doesn't matter that this stuff is missing insignificant things like a plot, logic or even entertainment value, someone's buying these things, because the comic book industry just keeps on making them.
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- By Diana McCallum
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5 Common Crime Fighting Tactics (Statistics Say Don't Work)
Sure, we've come a long way since the days of hanging warty women for consorting with the devil, but that doesn't mean our justice system has made it all the way out of the dark ages.
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- By Lillian Marx
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6 Laws You've Broken Without Even Realizing It
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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6 Parodies That Succeeded Because Nobody Got the Joke
Parody and real life have essentially blended together and this is the result.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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