Cracked Archive - Weird World
7 Actual Theme Park Attractions Clearly Designed By Maniacs
If you're really adventurous, you can skip the traditional theme parks and visit those places where childhood dreams are traded for reality-questioning befuddlement.
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- By Kier Harris
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5 Shocking Facts That Will Change How You View Famous Photos
History allows us to construct a story around some images that, over time, becomes the official account of what happened.
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- By Joey Clift
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6 Historical Heroes Who Did Awful Things Nobody Talks About
Every real hero had an ugly side.
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- By Zachary Frey
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5 Sneaky Ways The Modern World Is Destroying Your Body
The truth is that our ancestors survived the same maladies that send you to the doctor every few months by hardly ever getting them at all.
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- By Nathan Williams
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6 Hilariously Stupid Early Personas Of Wrestling Superstars
Professional wrestling is a carnival of wonders that defies imagination.
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- By Sam Jackson, Cristian Ramirez
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6 Terrifying Versions Of Cute Animals
Occasionally Mother Nature belts out a maniacal cackle while slipping an animal from the 'harmless' side over to the 'horrifying' side.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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6 Popular Medications With Baffling Side Effects
There is a subset of side effects that skip the whole
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- By Vicki Veritas, K.L. Fortson
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10 Nightmarish Health And Safety Posters From Decades Ago
Today's public service announcements just can't compete with the batshit PSAs of yesteryear.
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- By Marina Reimann
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- 218
Dog-Sized Scorpions: 6 Ways The Earth Was A Sci-Fi Nightmare
If you look to the past, you might find our sensible stomping grounds used to have a lot more flair.
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- By Micah Kolding, Ivan Farkas
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6 Insane Educational Claims Published In Real Textbooks
Some textbooks are really, really dumb.
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- By Michael Hossey
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5 Fan Theories That Make Way Too Much (Horrifying) Sense
Nonsense to sense does not work like lemons to lemonade.
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- By JM McNab
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5 Famous People With Mind-Blowing Connections To Evil Crimes
Being a celebrity doesn't make you immune from being connected to terrible crimes that permanently change your life.
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- By Robin Warder
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6 Totally Dumbass Ways People Tried To Teach Gender Equality
Some of these attempts are so half-assed that they transformed into full-assed attempts and ended up background-dancing in a Ying Yang Twins music video.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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6 Celebrities You Didn't Know Voiced Famous Characters
Who is the voice of the Yellow M&M? Someone way overqualified for the job.
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- By Joshua C. Styles
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6 Of The Weirdest Tiny Towns In The United States
If you land in one of these American towns, you might want to think twice about stopping the car.
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- By Marina Reimann
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- 630