Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 Horrifying Ways Old Hollywood Was A Living Hell
Today's Hollywood elite have it easy compared to the stars of your grandparents' and great-grandparents' generations.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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262 7 Heroically Dumb Projects The Government Blew Your Taxes On
The people tasked with running our country have wasted so much money over the years on so many stupid things, it's amazing there's anything left to spend.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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6 Amazing Inventions You're Being Denied For Stupid Reasons
There are some very basic things that are standing in the way of the sci-fi future we were promised.
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- By Michael Hossey
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The 5 Most Purely Evil Leaked Memos From Famous Companies
These organizations found a way to turn scum-sucking evil up to 11.
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- By Nimby Smith
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5 Things A Body Can Spontaneously Do (Worse Than Combustion)
It's amazing any of us have lasted this long.
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- By Mordecai Jones
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6 Childhood Toys That Got Hacked Into Grown Up Awesomeness
People out there are making insane adult versions of the things we loved as kids. Get ready to make some poor financial decisions.
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- By Michael Dawson
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15 Mind-Bending Buildings That Are Architecture Porn
While most buildings adhere to the standard design, there are still plenty out there that were clearly the work of insane, overgrown children.
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- By Kel Zhang
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The 5 Most Half Assed Ways People Found Priceless Artifacts
Sometimes the accidental results of mundane tasks such as taking your dog for a walk or stopping by a sad yard sale wind up unearthing some of the most significant discoveries.
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- By Tara Marie
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6 Legitimate Goddamn Heroes You Didn't Know Got Screwed Over
The universe is ruled by a blind, mad god who feasts on pain and chaos.
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- By Tara Marie
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The DC Rape Coverup And 5 Other Horrendous Superhero Plots
If you dig back through the comics, you find that the moral histories of all of your favorite characters are messy, to say the least.
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- By Henrik Magnusson , Tara Marie
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8 Attempts To Stay Hip By Brands (Who Aren't Fooling Anyone)
Millennials are a coveted demographic for advertisers, but like every generation of young people before them, it gets really embarrassing when people try marketing to them.
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- By Michael Dawson
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Lies That The Whole World Believed
We all know that the media is awash in lies and half-truths. It's a continuous struggle between truth-seekers and B.S. artists, and the problem is that the second group has some pretty dedicated people on its side.
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- By Tara Marie
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6 Plants And Fungi Designed By Mother Nature (And Satan)
While you've been over there getting all creeped out by sharks and spiders, the plant world has been over here, quietly evolving horrors for millions of years.
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- By Eamon Lahiri
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6 Dark Secrets Of Being An Olympic Athlete Nobody Tells You
You might think that the worst thing that can happen to an Olympic athlete is having to raise the Kardashian kids, it turns out that the job comes with a lot of depressing baggage.
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- By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
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5 Medical Myths And Prejudices That Kill People Every Day
Some of the factors standing between us and adequate medical care serve as reminders of how far we are from a Utopian society in which no one is forced to wonder if that thing on their back is cancer.
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- By Natalie Vail
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