Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 Shockingly Dark Secrets Of The Art World
Ever wonder why artists are always shitfaced at their own openings? It's because the art world isn't pretty.
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301 5 Disney Park Attractions You Won't Believe Existed
It turns out Disney's Imagineers have dreamed up some certifiably insane attractions that don't exactly jive with your preconceived image of Disney.
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- By Alyssa Feller
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When Sick Kids Who Don't Give A F#@% Get A Make-A-Wish Wish
Some Make-A-Wish kids want to be in Star Wars, but not Max. No, Max wanted something a little more dangerous, and the seven-story Con Agra grain mill in Huron, Ohio was just the ticket.
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- By Alyssa Feller
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6 Famous Awards Way More Full Of S#!% Than You Think
It turns out many of the most prestigious awards are a bunch of bunk.
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- By Patrick Coyne
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6 Creative Criminal Punishments So Stupid They're Brilliant
In the case of Safety Pup, making a violent criminal symbolically wear his victim as a skin suit is the kind of shit a serial killer would dream up.
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- By Kayla Layaoen
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7 Unexplained Deaths That Will Shake Your Faith In Reason
Unlike on television, in the real world bizarre murders only raise more and more questions.
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- By Robin Warder
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10 Psychotic Old Ads That Basically Sold Child Abuse
Holy moly things were super duper insane back then.
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- By Marina Reimann
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6 Board Game Tie-Ins That Backfired (Hilariously)
The results of combining the two were some deeply weird licensed board games that are probably still populating the backs of closets everywhere.
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- By Gavin Jamieson
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6 Hilariously Dumb Ways Confidential Secrets Got Revealed
ISIS must maintain a massive social media presence in order to entice dumbass teenagers with a parental bone to pick to join their cause. The problem is that sometimes their selfies reveal a little too much and Ka-Boom!
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- By Gavin Jamieson
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6 Crime Victims Who Got Justice Through Insane Coincidences
Real crimes are sometimes occasionally solved thanks to coincidences that are so insane, it's almost as if the universe was telling the criminals that they had selected the wrong career path.
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- By Kevin Phelan
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5 Mean Spirited Hoaxes Done Purely Out Of Spite
Bobby Knight doesn't like you. He also doesn't like ESPN-style "insider experts." During his time as coach of the Indiana Hoosiers he decided to test just how much work they put into their keen insights and sharp commentaries.
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- By Radu Alexander
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6 Good Ideas It Took Humanity Way Too Long To Come Up With
Who'd make a car without a steering wheel? That'd be stupid. Well, we had 8 years of stupid before the light went on.
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- By Jacque Linton, Graeme Milling, Laura H
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5 Terrible Lies You've Been Told About Famous People
In many cases, the version of history we all learned in grade school was manufactured by someone with a killer grudge.
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- By Luke John Smith
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6 Brilliant Ways Movies & TV Shows Stuck It To The Censors
It's only appropriate that these work-arounds were utterly ridiculous.
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- By Adam Koski
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5 Of The Most Hated Things On Earth (With Awesome Benefits)
It turns out the following first-world problems actually benefit you.
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- By Mike Bedard
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