Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (Solved With Basic Science)
Time to destroy some wondrous mysteries of life!
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- By Tara Marie
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282 6 Movie Monsters (You Didn't Realize Are Centuries Old)
Despite famines, plagues, body lice, and getting crushed by runaway donkey carts, our ancestors' ideas of monsters were spookily similar to ours.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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- 192
5 Universal Experiences That Are Different In Other Cultures
In a lot of cases, it's not who you are, it's where you're from.
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- By Ivan Farkas, Tyler Peterson
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- 498
5 Random Places That Produced An Eerily High Number Of Stars
There's 'this place is favorable to artists,' and then there's 'somebody is clearly growing rock stars in a lab in Virginia.'
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- By Christopher Charles Slayter
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- 249
5 Ways We Are Absolutely Lost When It Comes To Mental Health
Medically speaking, we've made some huge strides in recent history. Huge, huge strides. In the wrong direction.
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- By E. Fitzgerald
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- 265
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6 Gloriously Insane Urban Legends You’ll Wish Are True
These theories aren't just fake, they're also so fun that you'll wish they really happened.
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- By Adam Wears
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- 314
6 Side Effects Of Famous Charities That Make Things Worse
The glut of donated supplies following a tragedy is such a problem that emergency workers have a term for it --
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- By Natalie Vail, Ashley Y, Jamie Wyman, Ryan Reyes
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7 WTF Ways Famous Companies Rip You Off Every Day
These methods of screwing the consumer are as petty as they are impressive.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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6 God-Awful Ways Real Schools Tried To Save Money
These cash-strapped schools deserve an A+ for creativity and an F for sheer lunacy.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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5 Extremely Wrong Things ‘Smart’ People Love To Say
Many of the 'superior' opinions you (or your annoying friends) hold turn out to be hilariously wrong when you look at the data.
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- By Chris Sutcliffe, Rachel P., Eamon Lahiri
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5 Incredible Stories We Guarantee Will Brighten Your Day
Every once in a while, it's refreshing to read a story where somebody beats the odds, defies fate, and manages to put one over on the cosmos for a longshot win -- and it's not a billionaire racist.
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- By Ivan Farkas, Vicki Veritas, K M Richards, Eamon Lahiri
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- 132
6 Famous Political Blunders (That You Remember Wrong)
For every political action worthy of derision, there are trumped-up gaffes meant to slake our insatiable thirst for calling politicians dumb, but in context were nothing at all.
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- By Chris Rio
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7 Scientists Who Definitely Weren't Just Arousing Themselves
We're not too sure how these scientists got grant money to explore their own dark fetishes.
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- By Britni Patterson
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- 151
The 5 Most Immortal Humans To Ever Walk The Earth
Death and taxes. But for these guys, just taxes.
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- By Mordecai Jones
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5 Cases Of Identity Theft That Are Sort Of Impressive
Some people just decide that nothing is going to keep them from achieving their dreams -- not society, not the law, not even basic logic.
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- By Tara Marie
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- 147
