Cracked Archive - Weird World

Vacations are risky.

• By Nathan Williams
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• December 31, 2017

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.

• By Alex Hanton, Tiago Svn, Ivan Farkas, Kelly Stone, Peter I. Santiago
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• December 28, 2017

If you hear me cheer extra loud every time I hear Drake give a shout out to East African girls, there's a reason for that.

• By Archie Grimm
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• December 21, 2017

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