Cracked Archive - Weird World
6 Historic Sex and Dating Rituals You'll Be Glad Died Out
Throughout the Middle Ages, it wasn't unheard-of for marital disputes to be negotiated via trial by combat.
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- By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
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106 6 Hilariously Elaborate Ways People Cheated At Stuff
Pigeon racing is a deadly serious competition, so of course there are pigeon doping scandals.
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- By Ricardo Oskam
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6 Absolutely Insane Perks Of Being Ultra-Rich
NSFW Warning: This article features Babylonian levels of decadence. Also, golden boobs.
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- By Isaac Cabe
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5 Brilliant Crimes By People Who Totally Sucked At Crime
Most people would sell the art they steal when they learn it's worth over a billion dollars. Not Stephane Breitwiester.
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- By Jim Avery
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5 Horrifying Tragedies Behind Everyday Routines
Many of the things you think are routine only became that way after massive amounts of suffering.
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- By Jordan Breeding, Claudio Buttice
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6 People Who Were The Scum Of The Earth During Tragedies
After every horrible disaster, there's always those of lesser scruples who have no problem trying to make gobs of money off of others' sympathy and suffering.
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- By Dawn Morrow
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5 Ways The U.S. Is Still Horrible At Handling Disabilities
Depending on your disability, it's still perfectly legal in America to screw you over in a fabulous myriad of ways.
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- By Jordan Breeding
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Kills 99% Of Germs: 6 Ad Phrases That Mean Literally Nothing
Some marketing ploys have become so ingrained in our culture, we simply accept them as fact.
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- By Michael Dawson , Ivan Farkas, Eamon Lahiri
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5 Horrifying Jobs That Almost Make You Prefer Unemployment
The next time you're having a bad day, remember that you could be clocking in to a day's worth of web gore and child pornography.
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- By Norbert Gehardt
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5 World-Famous Landmarks That Have Totally Weirdo Secrets
Even our most solemn and serious places can have some really strange Easter eggs in them.
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- By Jim Avery
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4 Backwards Medical Beliefs In Otherwise Developed Countries
When traveling in Germany, refuse the temptation to open any windows.
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- By Wes Corwin
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- 433
6 Normal People Who Became Crazy Badasses When Facing Danger
There are real folks out there who, when danger came a-knocking, mustered the mental steel to uppercut danger in its stupid idiot face.
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- By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
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5 Annoying Modern Debates That Have Been Around Forever
What's actually fake news is thinking Donald Trump coined the idea of 'fake news.'
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- By Nathan Williams
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6 Ways You're Secretly Ruining Your Waiter's Life
Being a server is a tough job, but there are so many more horses on their carousel of suck beside the bad hours, little pay and sore feet.
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- By Isaac Cabe
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The 5 Most Creatively Bizarre Military Units In History
War is terrible, but our popular culture is obsessed with it for a reason -- the history of warfare is full of great, weird stories.
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- By Sergei Korolev
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