Cracked Archive - Weird World

If you didn't think we could tie the origins of Judaism to 'Star Wars,' then, well, hold on to your space butts.

• By Nathan Kamal, Mike Bedard, Ed Stevens, Jordan Breeding
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• July 07, 2017

Here's what you learn when you're authorized to hold people upside down and shake the coins out of their pockets.

• By Ryan Menezes, JSH Placie
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• July 06, 2017

Until some genius makes a spellchecker for jpegs, more organizations will fall into the same traps the Academy Awards and the Fox News did.

• By Cedric Voets
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• July 05, 2017

Don't get in a bounce house anytime soon.

• By Ivan Farkas, Jordan Breeding, Eamon Lahiri
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• July 05, 2017

Employment is both a legal and moral maze, full of grey areas, exploitable loopholes, and dead ends.

• By Eamon Lahiri, Britni Patterson
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• July 05, 2017

You're much closer to a pointless, life-threatening event than you realize -- and pop culture hasn't prepared you adequately for it.

• By Mike Turner
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• July 04, 2017

Despite this city's strange mix of imported cultural norms meshing uniquely, it's not without some unusual side effects.

• By Luis Prada
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• July 03, 2017

People hiring fake crowds is apparently a very real thing that happens all the time.

• By Evan V. Symon
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• July 03, 2017

Imagine getting paid to be the bearer of bad news.

• By Andy Hagon
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• July 01, 2017

In our relentless pursuit to improve everything, we, more often than not, end up screwing things up entirely.

• By Chris Bucholz
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• July 01, 2017

The problem of hip white people appropriating Native culture actually goes a lot deeper than wearing headdresses at Coachella.

• By Robert Evans
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• July 01, 2017

Awkward is the new not-awkward even though some of this awkward behavior serves no purpose at all.

• By Ian Fortey
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• June 30, 2017

Spoiler alert: some of the most popular quotes from some of the most famous geniuses don't actually mean what we think they do.

• By Tim Lieder, Stephan Roget
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• June 30, 2017

There's attempted suicide every 38 seconds. This is one of those attempts; and, even though it ends well, it's pretty terrifying. Fair warning.

• By J.F. Sargent
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• June 29, 2017

Nobody's asking you to cry for the wealthy, but being rich isn't exactly how you've been picturing it.

• By Natalie Vail
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• June 28, 2017