Cracked Archive - Weird World

How The NRA Lost Its Mind

Authors: By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
Published: February 20, 2018
Comments: 550

5 Insanely Important Jobs (We're Running Out Of People For)

We are running out of people for some especially vital jobs.

Authors: By Dwayne Hoover, Michael Garowee, T.W. Thinker, Eamon Lahiri
Published: February 19, 2018
Comments: 221

5 Priceless Treasures That Got Destroyed In Stupid Dumb Ways

Accidents happen.

Authors: By Andrea Meno
Published: February 17, 2018
Comments: 171

5 Ways The Universe Is Secretly Sabotaging Your Love Life

It's not you, it's science.

Authors: By Dawn Morrow
Published: February 12, 2018
Comments: 144

7 Serious Problems That Had Hilarious Cartoon Solutions

Let us tip our hats to the wonderfully insane people who dreamed up terrifyingly cartoon-like solutions to very serious problems.

Authors: By Kelly Stone
Published: February 11, 2018
Comments: 126

5 Hilarious Black Markets You Didn't Know Existed

We can go weirder. We MUST go weirder.

Authors: By Andrea Meno
Published: February 06, 2018
Comments: 143

5 People Who Predicted Disasters And Were Mocked Mercilessly

The world has treated many predictors of doom and gloom as nerds who were off their meds, only admitting that they were right after it started raining limbs.

Authors: By Justin Crockett
Published: January 30, 2018
Comments: 170

5 Crazy Stories From The Early Days Of Disneyland

Your favorite purveyor of childhood memories and nostalgia isn't as wholesome as you think.

Authors: By Adam Wears
Published: January 29, 2018
Comments: 68

5 Major Scare Campaigns Based On Less Than Nothing

Nothing gets the vote like good ol' fashioned scaremongering.

Authors: By Stephan Roget
Published: January 27, 2018
Comments: 421

6 Millennial Fads That Are Way Older Than You Think

Guess what? Half of the Millennial trends your grandpa complains about are actually even older than he is.

Authors: By S Peter Davis
Published: January 23, 2018
Comments: 139

5 Beloved Groups Everyone Forgot Did Terrible Things

How could they possibly do any wrong? Oh boy, you know where this is going ...

Authors: By Dawn Morrow
Published: January 22, 2018
Comments: 248

5 Surreal Realities Black Children Face

Sometimes we focus so much on the way adults are treated, we forget to look after the children.

Authors: By Alyssa Feller, Joel B. Kirk, J.D. Bennet
Published: January 22, 2018
Comments: 459

The 6 Stupidest Ways Governments Tried To Assassinate People

Spies are not always creative people.

Authors: By Alex Hanton, Spencer Thew
Published: January 20, 2018
Comments: 118

6 Things We Only Believe Today Because Of Propaganda

Some of the most seemingly innocent facts we never even think to question were in fact originally churned out by the propaganda machine.

Authors: By Adam Wears, James Kinneen, E.M. Caris, Britni Patterson
Published: January 16, 2018
Comments: 146

5 Heartbreaking Side Effects Of The Opioid Crisis In America

People have been getting loaded ever since Julius Wine ate all those bad grapes, and we're mostly OK with it. But prescription opioid painkillers, our latest drug epidemic, is a different beast entirely.