Cracked Archive - Weird World
The 300 Club: Plunging From 200 Degrees To -100 Degrees, Naked
Scientists at the South Pole do this challenge, for fun.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 The Missouri Town That Had A 50 Gator Invasion
In the early 2010s, a Missouri town fell victim to an alligator salesman from Florida. More than 50 baby alligators were purchased.
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- By Ethan Tyrrell
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Comic's Darkest Villain Wasn't A Character, It Was Artist Len Lawson
How one artist went from competing with Superman to rotting in jail forever.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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The Time A 'Haunted' Toys 'R' Us In California Hosted A Séance
Honestly, how has a toy store being haunted in California during the ‘70s not been turned into a movie already?
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- By Zanandi Botes
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The Bizarre History Of Animals In Our Sewers And Toilets
Stop writing it off as an urban legend.
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- By Nathan Williams
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4 Things I Considered My 'Children' Before My Kid Was Born
Babies have a way of shifting perspectives and realigning priorities.
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- By Chris Corlew
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One Pot Of Soup In Bangkok Has Been Boiling For 47 Years
It's called a perpetual stew, and everyone used to have one.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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4 Bizarre Hidden Treasures (Still Out There To Be Found)
Remember how people just went around in search for hidden treasure and then actually found it? We miss that for other people.
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- By Zanandi Botes
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Explaining The Idiotic QAnon 'Rolling Stones And JFK Jr' Theory
"Keith Richards is actually JFK Jr. in disguise, and Michael Jackson is alive and well and--"
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- By Zanandi Botes
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Thousands Of Monkeys Have Taken Over A South Carolina Island
Since 1979, a colony of medical research monkeys have lived alone on a small island in South Carolina.
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- By Ethan Tyrrell
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5 Children’s Books That Won't Drive Parents Mad
Sometimes a book brings Seussian-level joy to you and yours.
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- By Chris Corlew
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'CFO' Magazine Kept Honoring CFOs, Who Kept Getting Arrested
Finally, they decided to stop giving out awards.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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There's No Nobel Prize In Economics. It's All A Lie.
One heir of Albert Nobel's says he despised economists.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Sure Seems Like We're Busier Post-Lockdown
Last year's idleness makes us feel too busy now.
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- By Ginny Hogan
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4 Obvious Grifts That Keep Fooling People
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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- By Dan Fritschie
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