Cracked Archive - Weird World

5 Words On Food Labels You Shouldn't Get Fooled By
We have a million fancy terms to describe our meals that barely resemble human speech.
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- By Nathan Kamal, Mike Bedard, E.M. Caris, Greg Tuff, Markos Hasiotis
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5 Horrifying Ways America's Hunting Undocumented Immigrants
Being an undocumented immigrant is like playing the world's highest-stakes game of hide and seek.
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- By Abraham Mireles, Daisy Walters
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5 Gross Tales From History You Never Learned In School
The past was gross.
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- By James Freeth
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The Dark Side Of Crowdfunding (Nobody Talks About)
Launching a crowdfunding campaign is exactly like launching a new business.
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- By Adam Wears
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5 Beyond-Insane Video Games From Otherwise Normal Companies
Some of the gaming industry's biggest wigs have some seriously weird side projects buried in their closets.
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- By Raoni Lacerda
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5 Myths About Food You Believe Thanks To Jerk Companies
According to the very latest scientific data, you require food in order to live.
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- By Claudio Buttice
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6 Hidden Biases In Everyday Words (You Never Noticed Before)
We really need to think before we speak.
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- By Michael Dawson , Mike Bedard, Dan Hopper
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7 Everyday Heroes Who Mercilessly Trolled Racist Morons
Human society comes with a great number of diverse opinions, but there are at least some basic ideas we should all be able to agree on: Racism is bad, hate speech is unacceptable, and people who leave shopping carts in the middle of the parking lot are literally the devil.
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- By S Peter Davis
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5 Ways Applying For A Job Is Hopelessly Stacked Against You
Searching for a job is so much worse than you know.
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- By Rob Rose
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The 5 Dumbest 'I Sacrifice Myself!' Deaths In Movie History
Sometimes a writer will know they want a beloved character to sacrifice themselves at the end of the second act, but they'll leave the details for later.
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- By Wes Corwin, Michael Garowee, Mark Bradley
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5 People Who Were The Repeat Victims Of WTF Coincidences
At some point, everybody has felt like they simply couldn't catch a break. But it's going to end eventually, right? Not always. Just look at these stories.
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- By Joel B. Kirk, Molly Khan, S. Aslam
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5 Neighbor Horror Stories (That Are Way Worse Than Yours)
Living in a society is great ... except for all the people who come along with it.
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- By Chris Fox
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How The Fashion World Glamorizes Rape, Abuse, And Murder
Contemporary fashion advertising is all about beautiful lifeless women, usually lying in puddles of artfully applied grime and contorted into broken, corpse-like sprawls.
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- By Andrea Meno
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6 Flat-Out Crazy Conspiracy Theories (That Really Happened)
We can say with some certainty that the federal government is not, in fact, a front for the lizard people.
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- By Alex Hanton
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4 Famous Mascots (Who Have Needlessly Creepy Origin Stories)
Why would so many corporations give their seemingly mundane mascots backstories so dark they might have wandered out of a David Lynch film?
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- By Spencer Thew, James Kinneen, David Klesh
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