Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 Insane Ways We've Disrespected The Dead
In Japan, rather than let loved ones pile up in a funeral home's inbox, people can choose to dump their dead loved ones at a local corpse hotel.
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- By Chris Radomile
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229 6 Insane Prejudices People Have Based On How You Talk
It turns out that the world demands certain things of voices, things that not all of us have. And when we don't have them, the world steps on our little necks for it.
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- By Kevin Swanberg, Christine Ro
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5 WTF Comicbook Origins Of Batman V Superman
Think of the following comics as the embarrassing parents to Batman V Superman's angry goth kid.
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- By CRACKED Staff, JM McNab
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The 6 Most Insane Things Ever Done With Nuclear Weapons
Unwilling to let all of this civilization-ending technology go to waste, we've come up with some novel and incredibly unwise uses for nuclear weapons.
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- By Sergei Korolev
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5 Types Of 'Scientific' Evidence You Won't Believe Are B.S.
Fingerprint identification is an extremely delicate art. And by 'delicate,' we mean 'wildly subjective.'
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- By Abraham Mireles
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8 Hilariously Offensive Artworks Featuring Famous Presidents
WARNING: This article gets increasingly deranged as it advances. Cracked is not responsible for your psychologist bills.
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- By Michael Hossey
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5 Reasons You Hated School (That You Were Right About)
Forget updating the textbooks. The entire system needs an overhaul.
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- By Wade Watney
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8 Massive Disasters In Marketing No One Noticed
You'd think brands would be obsessive about not, say, including accidental references to Nazis or child rape in their festive product labels. You'd be wrong.
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- By Sam Jackson
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6 Hilariously Blatant Episodes Of Greed And Corruption
There's a special breed of government employee so unilaterally crazy, they'll wipe with their butts with the social contract while making direct eye contact with you.
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- By Jason Iannone
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5 Psychology 'Facts' You Believe (That Are Myths)
Here's the deal with depression: Nobody knows what the deal is with depression.
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- By Nathan Williams
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5 Horrifying Things That Should Have Been Illegal Way Sooner
People apparently assumed that crime ceased to exist once you were five miles above the Earth, or that commercial aircraft were under the jurisdiction of Zeus, King of Olympus.
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- By Luke John Smith
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The 5 Most Insane Things People Did To Avoid Being Late
Some people refuse to tell lies, or behave rationally, or do anything that wasn't 100 times worse than just being late for whatever it was they were late for.
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- By Richie Ryan, Chris Fox
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6 Amazing Prizes That Sucked When They Read The Fine Print
Always read the fine print, unless you're into winning 5-ton paper weights.
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- By JM McNab
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The 6 Most Unintentionally Horrifying Moments In Kids' Games
Many of the horrors of your childhood came from things designed specifically for children. We wonder if kids even knew they were playing nightmare fuel, or if they just rolled with it.
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- By Michael Kane, David Otto
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5 Apocalyptic Chain Reactions (That Have Already Started)
If you like the fact that you're able to read this article on your smartphone, congratulations -- you and your damn space debris will kill us all.
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- By Sergei Korolev
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- 653
