Cracked Archive - Weird World
27 Weird Facts About Super-Popular Mascots
Horatio Magellan Crunch is just the tip of the iceberg.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- January 17, 2018
6 Things We Only Believe Today Because Of Propaganda
Some of the most seemingly innocent facts we never even think to question were in fact originally churned out by the propaganda machine.
- By Adam Wears, James Kinneen, E.M. Caris, Britni Patterson
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- January 16, 2018
5 Heartbreaking Side Effects Of The Opioid Crisis In America
People have been getting loaded ever since Julius Wine ate all those bad grapes, and we're mostly OK with it. But prescription opioid painkillers, our latest drug epidemic, is a different beast entirely.
- By Abraham Mireles, Jordan Breeding, Markos Hasiotis, Andrea Meno
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- January 15, 2018
4 Surprising Ways Huge Disasters Ruined People's Lives
Disasters ruin people's lives. It's pretty much the only thing they do.
- By Adam Wears
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- January 14, 2018
18 Stupid Scams You Can't Believe You Fell For
Schadenfreude or life lessons: Take your pick.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- January 14, 2018
5 'Eco-Friendly' Products That Failed In Hilarious Ways
Sometimes a product fails because everybody in charge of the launch was criminally inept, fist-eatingly crazy, chemically stupid, or all of the above.
- By James Kinneen
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- January 13, 2018
5 Important Things That We All Somehow Slack Off On
Effort takes effort, and who the heck needs that?
- By Ian Fortey
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- January 12, 2018
The Completely Selfish Reason You Should Help People
Every positive action feels like trying to stop a forest fire with a water balloon.
- By Christina H
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- January 11, 2018
6 Signs That Disney Is Trying To Take Over The World
Soon Disney will rule all media with a white-gloved iron fist.
- By Cedric Voets
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- January 11, 2018
28 Baldfaced Lies Your Parents Expected You To Believe
Dear Mom, your pants are super on fire.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- January 11, 2018
5 Underreported Acts Of Total Madness By Modern Countries
You'd think that at this point in history, we'd be semi-competent at good old-fashioned diplomacy.
- By Steven Assarian
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- January 08, 2018
American Flops That Are Insanely Popular In Other Countries
This should be known as The Hasselhoff Effect.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- January 08, 2018
Pop Culture Things Everybody Remembers Wrong
The good news is, you can now correct other people about this stuff.
- By E. Reid Ross, Timon DJ Spajic
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- January 06, 2018
5 Ways Life Changes When You Suffer Depression As A Child
Can you imagine anything sadder than a clinically depressed eight-year-old?
- By Luis Prada
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- January 04, 2018
6 Times Mankind Tackled Problems Like Insane Supervillains
Here are some of the bonkers ideas that misguided geniuses have come up with to save us all (even if they had to kill every last one of us to do it).
- By Richard Gough, Stephan Roget
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- January 01, 2018
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