Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 Major Scare Campaigns Based On Less Than Nothing
Nothing gets the vote like good ol' fashioned scaremongering.
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- By Stephan Roget
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421 6 Millennial Fads That Are Way Older Than You Think
Guess what? Half of the Millennial trends your grandpa complains about are actually even older than he is.
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- By S Peter Davis
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5 Beloved Groups Everyone Forgot Did Terrible Things
How could they possibly do any wrong? Oh boy, you know where this is going ...
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- By Dawn Morrow
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5 Surreal Realities Black Children Face
Sometimes we focus so much on the way adults are treated, we forget to look after the children.
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- By Alyssa Feller, Joel B. Kirk, J.D. Bennet
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The 6 Stupidest Ways Governments Tried To Assassinate People
Spies are not always creative people.
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- By Alex Hanton, Spencer Thew
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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.
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- By Adam Wears, James Kinneen, E.M. Caris, Britni Patterson
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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.
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- By Abraham Mireles, Jordan Breeding, Markos Hasiotis, Andrea Meno
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4 Surprising Ways Huge Disasters Ruined People's Lives
Disasters ruin people's lives. It's pretty much the only thing they do.
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- By Adam Wears
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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.
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- By James Kinneen
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6 Signs That Disney Is Trying To Take Over The World
Soon Disney will rule all media with a white-gloved iron fist.
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- By Cedric Voets
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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.
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- By Steven Assarian
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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).
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- By Richard Gough, Stephan Roget
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5 Facts That'll Ruin Popular Tourist Spots For You Forever
Vacations are risky.
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- By Nathan Williams
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9 Terrifying Things Doctors Pulled Out Of Living People
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.
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- By Alex Hanton, Tiago Svn, Ivan Farkas, Kelly Stone, Peter I. Santiago
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5 Totally WTF Myths That Pop Up In Every Culture Worldwide
Somehow, there are incredibly specific -- and deeply weird -- myths that happen to turn up in places separated by both time and distance.
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- By Alex Hanton, Spencer Thew, Greg Tuff, Daisy Walters
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