Cracked Archive - Weird World

There's a specific moment in life when you realize that your parents are lame.

• By Mags Storey
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• December 18, 2017

A bunch of different companies write messages from 'Santa,' which range from printed form letters to personalized handwritten messages. This article is about to get surprisingly dark.

• By Evan V. Symon
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• December 18, 2017

Somehow, there are incredibly specific -- and deeply weird -- myths that happen to turn up in places separated by both time and distance.

• By Alex Hanton, Spencer Thew, Greg Tuff, Daisy Walters
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• December 17, 2017

No one thinks they're the villain in their own life story.

• By Ian Fortey
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• December 15, 2017

The 'Santa Clause' franchise is a wacky Yuletide fever dream that inexplicably stars Tim Allen.

• By JM McNab
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• December 13, 2017

You find lost things in unexpected places all the time. But sometimes those things are way more impressive than you bargained for.

• By Andrea Meno
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• December 13, 2017

If there's anything the Trump brand has been consistently known for, it's failure.

• By Adam Wears
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• December 12, 2017

We have a million fancy terms to describe our meals that barely resemble human speech.

• By Nathan Kamal, Mike Bedard, E.M. Caris, Greg Tuff, Markos Hasiotis
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• December 12, 2017

Being an undocumented immigrant is like playing the world's highest-stakes game of hide and seek.

• By Abraham Mireles, Daisy Walters
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• December 10, 2017

You know what to expect: glitzy nightlife, exotic dining options, everyone spends all day, every day honking their horns in traffic.

• By Dwayne Hoover
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• December 09, 2017

The past was gross.

• By James Freeth
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• December 07, 2017

I'm not surprising anyone by saying that the world sexualizes teenage girls. What fascinates me (and equally creeps me out) are the unspoken messages behind it.

• By Lydia Bugg
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• December 06, 2017

Launching a crowdfunding campaign is exactly like launching a new business.

• By Adam Wears
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• December 06, 2017

Movies have given us a very specific image of the hippie. But as is so often the case, reality is nothing like the Hollywood version.

• By Evan V. Symon
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• December 02, 2017

Say, are you worried about the end of the world? Sure you are! You can prepare for it with your canned hams and fallout shelters ... or you can do what the truly paranoid and rich are doing.

• By Ian Fortey
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• December 01, 2017