Cracked Archive - Weird World

5 Crazy Stories From The Early Days Of Disneyland

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

By Adam Wears
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January 29, 2018

5 Major Scare Campaigns Based On Less Than Nothing

Nothing gets the vote like good ol' fashioned scaremongering.

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By Stephan Roget
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January 27, 2018

Healthy People Are Faking Disabilities To Get A Service Dog

Why in the heck would somebody fake a disability just to get a fake service animal? To find out, we talked with someone who did precisely that.

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By Evan V. Symon
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January 24, 2018

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.

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By S Peter Davis
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January 23, 2018

5 Beloved Groups Everyone Forgot Did Terrible Things

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

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By Dawn Morrow
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January 22, 2018

5 Surreal Realities Black Children Face

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

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By Alyssa Feller, Joel B. Kirk, J.D. Bennet
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January 22, 2018

The 6 Stupidest Ways Governments Tried To Assassinate People

Spies are not always creative people.

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By Alex Hanton, Spencer Thew
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January 20, 2018

6 Unpredictable Dangers Of Being An Atheist

Being an atheist means taking up a few unforeseen hardships.

By Ian Fortey
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January 19, 2018

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.

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By Adam Wears, James Kinneen, E.M. Caris, Britni Patterson
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January 16, 2018

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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January 15, 2018

4 Surprising Ways Huge Disasters Ruined People's Lives

Disasters ruin people's lives. It's pretty much the only thing they do.

By Adam Wears
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January 14, 2018

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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