Cracked Archive - Weird World

5 Amazing Wizard Tricks You Can Do With Basic Math

While only the highest Numerati may understand the spellcraft that makes our modern wonders possible, even a Level 1 Math Wizard wielding basic fourth grade arithmetic can pull off seemingly impossible feats.

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By Teddem Yee
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May 20, 2014

5 Reasons Life as a Deaf Person Is Weirder Than You Thought

I'm a sign language interpreter and an American Sign Language (ASL) graduate, and I'll try to give you a glimpse of how strange things can get.

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By Anonymous, Evan V. Symon
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May 20, 2014

6 Disturbing Things I Learned Writing Your Textbooks

I've written textbooks for two years. I've covered every subject, and I'm here to tell you that things are ... pretty saddening.

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By J.F. Sargent, T.K. Pennywhistle
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May 19, 2014

So You're Being Hunted for Sport

By Chris Bucholz
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May 18, 2014

The 6 Strangest Things Nobody Tells You About Life in Korea

As an American teaching English in South Korea, I expected to run into at least a few cultural differences. Needless to say, I was ill prepared for what I found when I actually got there.

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By Jason Iannone, MJ Stacey
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May 18, 2014

5 TV Shows That Were Shameless Rip-Offs of Movies

Here are five of the less imaginative attempts to create a hit show by altering the movie source material just enough to give it a new title.

By Gladstone
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May 17, 2014

5 Sites That Prove the U.S. Government Sucks at the Internet

These were all funded by your tax dollars, of course.

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By Gavin Jamieson
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May 17, 2014

4 Irrational Fears That Aren't as Irrational as They Seem

By Adam Tod Brown
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May 16, 2014

The Top 116 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped

None of these pictures has been manipulated in any way. All of them look crazier than a bag of balls.

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By Cracked Writers
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May 15, 2014

6 Bizarre Realities of How Movies Get Their Ratings

It turns out that every facet of Hollywood is pure evil.

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By Evan V. Symon
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May 15, 2014

5 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Publications

Maybe it's because writers and artists get bored, or maybe they know that years down the road someone like us will come along and draw them out, but easter eggs are everywhere.

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By Veronica Dymond, Robert Rosati, Carmen Burana
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May 14, 2014

The 6 Biggest Dick Moves People Pull in the Workplace

At their best, these mind games get in the way of the actual work being done and impede any sense of job satisfaction a normal person might derive from their work. At their worst? They make people go insane.

By Chris Bucholz
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May 13, 2014

5 Shockingly Outdated Problems Gay People Still Face Today

Things are still incredibly backwards, even in the most progressive parts of the world. That's because a lot of the really weird problems gay people still face in their day-to-day lives never get talked about.

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