Cracked Archive - Weird World

5 Things I Learned As a Cop Movies Won't Show You (Part 2)

If you think TV and movies make police work sound like fun, well, it is. It can be dangerous, sure, but you sure as hell wind up with some great stories.

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By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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June 02, 2014

5 Realities of Being Lost at Sea (From a Shipwreck Survivor)

Steve drifted on a life raft across the Atlantic for 76 days before he was finally rescued.

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By Evan V. Symon , Steven Callahan
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June 01, 2014

4 Awful Mistakes Restaurants Make All the Time

The reason 60 percent of restaurants fail in their first year is because at least 60 percent of owners don't know their elbows from grape jelly.

By Felix Clay
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May 31, 2014

5 Grossly Inappropriate Jokes on Kids' Comic Book Covers

A quick perusal of kids' comic book covers can tell you that the stories upon these pages can be the stuff of freaking nightmares.

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By Adam Hirschfeld
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May 31, 2014

4 Classic Horror Movies That Get More Love Than They Deserve

When something comes along that seems even remotely new or veers away from the run-of-the-mill tropes and cliches we've come to expect from scary movies, our first instinct is to pile on mountains of praise that, in time, reveals itself to be completely undeserved.

By Adam Tod Brown
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May 30, 2014

5 Things I Learned as a Ghost Hunter (TV Won't Show You)

We're Clint and Jessica Harris, a pair of paranormal investigators with more than a decade of experience, and here's what you probably didn't know about the world of ghost hunting.

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By Robert Evans, Clint Harris, Jessica Harris
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May 30, 2014

10 Offensive Ads You Won't Believe Are From the Last Decade

These ad execs took these messages, then twisted them until they were confusing, hurtful, or downright disturbing. Then they crapped on them.

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By Pat Carnell, A.C. Grimes
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May 29, 2014

5 Useless Products That Nobody Can Throw Out

Some things are easy to get rid of. And some stuff we're much better at holding on to, even when it means we can no longer fit our possessions in our homes.

By C. Coville
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May 28, 2014

6 Smart Movie Characters Who Do Incredibly Dumb Things

Sometimes these supposed geniuses make decisions that even a WWE staff writer would find patently ridiculous.

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By Nyameye Dwomo-Anokye
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May 28, 2014

5 Human Flaws That Prevent Progress and Keep Us Dumb

We've erected all these barriers between ourselves and new ideas, so anytime someone tosses a ping-pong ball of knowledge at our brain, we open our mouths and spew a bunch of nonsense.

By J.F. Sargent
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May 27, 2014

5 Things They Don't Tell You When You Leave the Army

While the military tries its best to show you things like how to write a resume or claim GI Bill benefits, there are some parts of everyday post-combat life they fail to mention.

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By JD Cano
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May 26, 2014

5 Ways Vladimir Putin Is Failing at Supervillainry

The real Vladimir Putin isn't a mix of the best parts of He-Man and Skeletor. Hell, he's not even the best parts of Ram Man and Spikor.

By Robert Evans
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May 25, 2014

5 People Who Became Unwitting Tourist Attractions

Sometimes, fame means little more than taking a full-time job as a depressing sideshow freak. Just ask some of the people who had the misfortune to become human tourist attractions.

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