Cracked Archive - Weird World

The 5 Creepiest Smear Campaigns Launched by Powerful Groups

There are many ways to deal with criticism: You can address it with counterarguments, you can use it to improve yourself, you can ignore it ... or you can spend inordinate amounts of money trying to nuke the reputation of your critics in the hopes that it will make people stop listening to them.

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By Danny Gallagher
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April 28, 2013

The 7 Most WTF Houses People Actually Live In

Sure, they're rare, and you might not want to actually live in them, but it's at least possible that one day you could set up shop in one of these.

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By Richie Ryan
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April 28, 2013

Photoplasty

24 Marketing Ideas That Would be Too Effective to Be Legal

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By Cracked Plasticians
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April 28, 2013

Cracked Round-Up: Summer Politics Edition

By CRACKED Staff
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April 27, 2013

9 Insane Cities You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped

Humans are infinitely creative and resilient, and that they will live in exotic locales that challenge the limits of logic and/or sanity.

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By Eric Yosomono, Ivan Farkas
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April 27, 2013

4 Good Manners It's Time to Stop Pretending We Care About

There are some social faux pas that, for better or worse, we just need to let go.

By Robert Brockway
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April 25, 2013

6 Ways Convenience Stores Have Changed the World

If you've ever wondered how convenience stores always seem to have at least one kind of cheese-powder-covered snack you're craving, it's because they've put about a thousand times more thought into it than you have.

By CRACKED Staff
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April 25, 2013

5 Important Things You Won't Believe Comic Books Invented

There are times in history when comic book pages splashed to life and changed the world in amazing ways or predicted the hell out of some pretty major stuff.

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By Diana McCallum
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April 25, 2013

4 Situations Where We've All Agreed to Act Like Dicks

There are some places in the world, some specific times and events, where goodness is checked at the door and humanity itself decays into an awkward, terrible beast.

By Felix Clay
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April 24, 2013

Accidentally Sneaking Into America from Mexico: A True Story

This is a true story.

By Soren Bowie
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April 23, 2013

The 6 Creepiest Things Kids Have Ever Been Asked to Color

Just because you can create a simplified version of real-life events in an easy-to-color format doesn't mean you should.

By Kristi Harrison
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April 23, 2013

6 New Kinds of Anxiety the Internet Gave Us

We're about 20 years into widespread Internet use now, and it's easy to forget how many of the day-to-day anxieties we deal with are brand new to the species.