Cracked Archive - Weird World
27 Conspiracies Behind Everyday Annoyances
If you're anything like us, when you can't find your keys or notice yet another lonely orphan in your sock drawer, your first thought is that you've been the victim of an extremely elaborate, and pointless conspiracy.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- December 07, 2011
6 Insane Early Drafts of Iconic Buildings
Everything mankind has ever built started out as a rough draft at one point, but you always assume that the general idea was there. And you'd be totally wrong.
- By Evan V. Symon
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- December 06, 2011
5 Insane Doctors From History Who Put House to Shame
Throughout history, there have been risk-taking, don't-give-a-sh*t doctors who were part Rambo, part MacGyver and part House (specifically, the crazy part of House).
- By Pauli Poisuo
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- December 05, 2011
5 Things That Are Much Sadder Than They Ought To Be
There are all sorts of tiny, less obvious things that -- for no good reason -- can fill us with a sadness so pervasive we're forced to look away. Or at least there are for me. Here are six of my big triggers to melancholy.
- By Gladstone
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- December 04, 2011
The 5 Most Mind-Blowing Things That Can Be Found Underwater
Underwater seems like the one place on earth you'd actually be safe from spiders. But you couldn't be more wrong.
- By Kier Harris
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- December 03, 2011
9 Tips for Being a Douchebag at the Grocery Store
Apparently it's possible to suck at grocery shopping.
- By Corey Vaspasiano
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- December 03, 2011
5 Jobs Everyone in the World Should Have at Some Point
I think that I know exactly what to do to make the world noticeably better, in the span of a year or two. That's all. I'm proposing that every person on the planet spends one or two years doing all five jobs on this list.
- By Daniel O'Brien
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- December 02, 2011
5 New Products Aimed Directly at The Worst People You Know
When they say you can get anything on the Internet, they do mean anything. Including services seemingly aimed exclusively toward people with crippling personality disorders.
- By Erik Germ
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- December 02, 2011
10 Common Words You Had No Idea Were Onomatopoeias
There are 10 more words you use every day that you had no idea were onomatopoeias, because, well, they're kind of dumb.
- By Andy Kneis
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- December 01, 2011
The 7 Hardest People to Shop For: A Holiday Gift Guide
With the end of the Thanksgiving weekend, we enter that long, grim death march known as the holiday season. We here at Cracked want to help, or more accurately, to pretend to help while we make cheap jokes at your expense.
- By Chris Bucholz
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- November 29, 2011
8 Incredible Discoveries People Just Sort of Stumbled Into
Some important discoveries are made by folks of singular mind and purpose. Others are made by people stumbling over them like a fat kid at a roller rink.
- By Evan V. Symon
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- November 27, 2011
19 Famous Photographs Before The CIA Edited Them
If the conspiracy theorists are to be believed, most of our technology comes from reverse engineering alien spacecraft. Assuming that applies to photo manipulation software, we have to assume that most famous photographs have been expertly manipulated to omit details that the public isn't ready for. A look at what some of our favorite images looked
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- November 27, 2011
23 Pranks That Fictional Characters Probably Get A Lot
Being the first to fall asleep at a sleep over party or the first to pass out at a kegger is going to be embarrassing. We asked you to show us what it our favorite fictional characters have to worry about in those circumstances.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- November 26, 2011
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