Cracked Archive - Weird World
6 Plants And Fungi Designed By Mother Nature (And Satan)
While you've been over there getting all creeped out by sharks and spiders, the plant world has been over here, quietly evolving horrors for millions of years.
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- By Eamon Lahiri
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127 6 Dark Secrets Of Being An Olympic Athlete Nobody Tells You
You might think that the worst thing that can happen to an Olympic athlete is having to raise the Kardashian kids, it turns out that the job comes with a lot of depressing baggage.
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- By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
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5 Medical Myths And Prejudices That Kill People Every Day
Some of the factors standing between us and adequate medical care serve as reminders of how far we are from a Utopian society in which no one is forced to wonder if that thing on their back is cancer.
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- By Natalie Vail
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5 Horrifying Laws It Took WAY Too Long To Fix
One hopes that when nations refer to their bleak history, they mean centuries ago, and not 'earlier this morning.'
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- By Mordecai Jones
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6 Dark Movies You'll Never See The Same Knowing Their Origin
Many of the byzantine horrors we see today were thought up by writers standing in line to buy a new mattress -- or something equally boring and mundane.
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- By JM McNab
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- 225
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5 Problems Superheroes Would Have (Movies Don't Address)
Wouldn't it be awesome if your favorite superheroes came to life? Actually, it turns out that'd be more than a little complicated.
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- By Stephan Roget
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5 Cool Secret Codes Hiding In Plain Sight Around The World
Movie and video game Easter eggs are cool and all, but there are far better secrets hidden all around you.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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5 Everyday Things You See Online (That Are Brainwashing You)
All the next evil mastermind hellbent on world domination simply needs is a basic understanding of how the rest of us use the internet.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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6 Human Quirks You Didn't Know Have Evolutionary Origins
Why do we share so many strange little tics, and where did they come from? What purpose do they serve? Turns out we can answer some of those questions.
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- By Joe Bayfield, Guidodo
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5 Safety Laws You Won't Believe Don't Exist
Most people aren't aware of instances like these, in which the government failed us so hard that it damn near killed us.
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- By Kasper Kauhanen
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5 Torture Methods Used In Mental Hospitals Way Too Recently
All science is a process of trial and error. In the case of psychiatry, those errors can mean dick-ogling and poop paintings.
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- By Gregory Maus
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- 161
5 Real Vacations That Went Worse Than You Thought Possible
Generally, having a bad vacation doesn't usually mean getting stabbed by a prison gang or being conscripted into a foreign army.
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- By Zachary Frey
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6 Literary Turds (Written By Your Favorite Authors)
Even the best writers are capable of churning out work that wouldn't even cut the mustard on a 'Twilight' meets 'Minions' erotic fiction blog.
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- By JM McNab
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Attempts To Sneak Tiny Crimes That Set Off Biblical Disaster
We've all come up with at least one clever scheme that's gone wrong. But none of them have gone murderously wrong.
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- By Micky McMichaelson
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6 Times Famous Geniuses Sold Out (And S*** Got Weird)
It turns out that making art and tricking people into buying stuff are two very different skill sets, and artistic visionaries don't make very good marketing drones.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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