Cracked Archive - Weird World
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.
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- By Abraham Mireles, Jordan Breeding, Markos Hasiotis, Andrea Meno
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219 4 Surprising Ways Huge Disasters Ruined People's Lives
Disasters ruin people's lives. It's pretty much the only thing they do.
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- By Adam Wears
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5 'Eco-Friendly' Products That Failed In Hilarious Ways
Sometimes a product fails because everybody in charge of the launch was criminally inept, fist-eatingly crazy, chemically stupid, or all of the above.
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- By James Kinneen
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6 Signs That Disney Is Trying To Take Over The World
Soon Disney will rule all media with a white-gloved iron fist.
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- By Cedric Voets
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5 Underreported Acts Of Total Madness By Modern Countries
You'd think that at this point in history, we'd be semi-competent at good old-fashioned diplomacy.
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- By Steven Assarian
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6 Times Mankind Tackled Problems Like Insane Supervillains
Here are some of the bonkers ideas that misguided geniuses have come up with to save us all (even if they had to kill every last one of us to do it).
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- By Richard Gough, Stephan Roget
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5 Facts That'll Ruin Popular Tourist Spots For You Forever
Vacations are risky.
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- By Nathan Williams
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9 Terrifying Things Doctors Pulled Out Of Living People
You may have thought we'd run out of upsetting things that have been yanked out of people by doctors. You fool. You poor, soon-to-be-disgusted fool.
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- By Alex Hanton, Tiago Svn, Ivan Farkas, Kelly Stone, Peter I. Santiago
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5 Totally WTF Myths That Pop Up In Every Culture Worldwide
Somehow, there are incredibly specific -- and deeply weird -- myths that happen to turn up in places separated by both time and distance.
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- By Alex Hanton, Spencer Thew, Greg Tuff, Daisy Walters
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Seasonal Reminder: The Santa Clause Movies Are Insane
The 'Santa Clause' franchise is a wacky Yuletide fever dream that inexplicably stars Tim Allen.
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- By JM McNab
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5 Priceless Historical Items That Turned Up In Random Places
You find lost things in unexpected places all the time. But sometimes those things are way more impressive than you bargained for.
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- By Andrea Meno
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7 WTF Trump Businesses You Never Knew About
If there's anything the Trump brand has been consistently known for, it's failure.
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- By Adam Wears
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5 Words On Food Labels You Shouldn't Get Fooled By
We have a million fancy terms to describe our meals that barely resemble human speech.
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- By Nathan Kamal, Mike Bedard, E.M. Caris, Greg Tuff, Markos Hasiotis
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5 Horrifying Ways America's Hunting Undocumented Immigrants
Being an undocumented immigrant is like playing the world's highest-stakes game of hide and seek.
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- By Abraham Mireles, Daisy Walters
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5 Gross Tales From History You Never Learned In School
The past was gross.
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- By James Freeth
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