Cracked Archive - Weird World

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

• By S Peter Davis
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• January 23, 2018

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

• By Dawn Morrow
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• January 22, 2018

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

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

Spies are not always creative people.

• By Alex Hanton, Spencer Thew
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• January 20, 2018

Being an atheist means taking up a few unforeseen hardships.

• By Ian Fortey
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• January 19, 2018

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

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

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.

• By Abraham Mireles, Jordan Breeding, Markos Hasiotis, Andrea Meno
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• January 15, 2018

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

• By Adam Wears
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• January 14, 2018

Sometimes a product fails because everybody in charge of the launch was criminally inept, fist-eatingly crazy, chemically stupid, or all of the above.

• By James Kinneen
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• January 13, 2018

Effort takes effort, and who the heck needs that?

• By Ian Fortey
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• January 12, 2018

Every positive action feels like trying to stop a forest fire with a water balloon.

• By Christina H
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• January 11, 2018

Soon Disney will rule all media with a white-gloved iron fist.

• By Cedric Voets
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• January 11, 2018

You'd think that at this point in history, we'd be semi-competent at good old-fashioned diplomacy.

• By Steven Assarian
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• January 08, 2018

Can you imagine anything sadder than a clinically depressed eight-year-old?

• By Luis Prada
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• January 04, 2018

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).

• By Richard Gough, Stephan Roget
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• January 01, 2018