Cracked Archive - Weird World
Kills 99% Of Germs: 6 Ad Phrases That Mean Literally Nothing
Some marketing ploys have become so ingrained in our culture, we simply accept them as fact.
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- By Michael Dawson , Ivan Farkas, Eamon Lahiri
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301 5 Horrifying Jobs That Almost Make You Prefer Unemployment
The next time you're having a bad day, remember that you could be clocking in to a day's worth of web gore and child pornography.
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- By Norbert Gehardt
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5 World-Famous Landmarks That Have Totally Weirdo Secrets
Even our most solemn and serious places can have some really strange Easter eggs in them.
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- By Jim Avery
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4 Backwards Medical Beliefs In Otherwise Developed Countries
When traveling in Germany, refuse the temptation to open any windows.
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- By Wes Corwin
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6 Normal People Who Became Crazy Badasses When Facing Danger
There are real folks out there who, when danger came a-knocking, mustered the mental steel to uppercut danger in its stupid idiot face.
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- By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
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5 Annoying Modern Debates That Have Been Around Forever
What's actually fake news is thinking Donald Trump coined the idea of 'fake news.'
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- By Nathan Williams
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6 Ways You're Secretly Ruining Your Waiter's Life
Being a server is a tough job, but there are so many more horses on their carousel of suck beside the bad hours, little pay and sore feet.
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- By Isaac Cabe
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The 5 Most Creatively Bizarre Military Units In History
War is terrible, but our popular culture is obsessed with it for a reason -- the history of warfare is full of great, weird stories.
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- By Sergei Korolev
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6 Terrifying Powers You Didn't Know The Government Had
If you're worried about your information getting sold, maybe never get a driver's license.
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- By Chris Radomile
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6 Totally WTF Mike Pence Stories Nobody Ever Brings Up
For people hoping Donald Trump will get the boot, the guy behind is kind of also super terrible.
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- By Isaac Cabe
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6 Hidden Networks Buried Beneath Famous Landmarks
If you've ever dreamed of going to work in a dormant volcano or an underwater base, that dream can become a reality.
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- By Mark Hill
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5 Easter Eggs With Scarier Implications Than Anyone Realized
If you didn't think we could tie the origins of Judaism to 'Star Wars,' then, well, hold on to your space butts.
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- By Nathan Kamal, Mike Bedard, Ed Stevens, Jordan Breeding
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7 Google Image Search Fails (That Caused PR Nightmares)
Until some genius makes a spellchecker for jpegs, more organizations will fall into the same traps the Academy Awards and the Fox News did.
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- By Cedric Voets
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5 Surprisingly Common Deaths You Never Considered
Don't get in a bounce house anytime soon.
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- By Ivan Farkas, Jordan Breeding, Eamon Lahiri
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5 Completely Legal Ways Employers Discriminate Against You
Employment is both a legal and moral maze, full of grey areas, exploitable loopholes, and dead ends.
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- By Eamon Lahiri, Britni Patterson
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