Cracked Archive - Weird World
6 Children's Books Whose Real Story Flew Over Your Head
Lessons in these childhood favorites that totally flew over your head while you were busy eating glue.
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- By JM McNab
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246 6 WTF Excuses Companies Actually Used While Getting Sued
Sometimes the only way to win a lawsuit is to admit to something far worse than what you're being accused of.
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- By Cedric Voets
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6 Jobs That Are Super Racist, And Nobody Seems To Care
Plenty of seemingly open-minded industries are still pretty white, and are in no hurry to change that.
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- By Chris Radomile
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6 Of Your Favorite Foods Made Possible By Human Suffering
Some of the foods you buy at the local supermarket are produced not just atop a mountain of yuck, but on the backs of inconceivable human tragedy.
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- By Alfie Amadeus
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8 Amusement Parks That Died Surreal And Bizarre Deaths
There's not much middle ground when it comes to theme parks -- either you operate a magical and amazing facility, or you wind up with a sad, rusted out Christmas Wonderland.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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5 Super-Adorable Animals That Can Kill The Hell Out Of You
The critters with plush fur, and big eyes, and cuddly widdle toes are on our side. Right? Ri- right?
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- By Vincent Pall, Alecia Chambers, Britni Patterson
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5 People Who Ruled At Things They Had No Right to Even Try
Some people pull such amazing feats, it's hard not to think they're secretly X-Men.
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- By Dennis Fulton
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6 Baffling Nightlife Laws You Had No Idea Existed
We've ended up with some bizarre laws that will kill a Spring Break party faster than a tropical storm.
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- By Jim Avery
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5 People Who Survived Completely Unsurvivable Situations
Once in a while, a person finds themselves face-to-face with Death ... and decides to yank the Grim Reaper's robe up and give him a wedgie
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- By Mike Turner
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5 Billionaires Who Pulled Some Monstrously 'Rich Guy' Moves
Having long gotten bored with buying normal stuff, billionaires know to take it to the next, awful level.
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- By Nathan Kamal, O.R. Konheim, Markos Hasiotis
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The 5 Oddest American Trends That Other Countries Stole
America Americas so hard that even other, less-American countries have to get in on this All-American action.
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- By Alyssa Feller
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6 Totally WTF Calls 911 Receives With Shocking Regularity
Every scenario is mapped out to account for every potential hazard, ensuring that the police are fully prepared to deal with any crisis. Well, almost any ...
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- By Carolyn Burke
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6 People With WTF Double Lives No One Saw Coming
Sometimes someone's daily persona can stand in complete, paradoxical defiance of the face they show when they think no one else is watching.
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- By Zachary Frey
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5 Self-Help Books That Got Very Popular Being Very Wrong
In an ideal universe, trained educators and/or leading experts in their field would exclusively write self-help books. We do not live in an ideal universe.
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- By Nathan Kamal, Jordan Breeding
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6 Ridiculously Simple Lifehacks You’ll Start Using Tomorrow
Why didn't anyone bother to tell us about these before?
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- By Ivan Farkas
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- 308
