Cracked Archive - Weird World
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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773 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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- 934
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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- 246
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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- 536
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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- 270
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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
5 Shockingly Lazy Ways Famous People Recycled Their Old Work
These people literally took their old work and tried to pass it off as new without changing a single thing.
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- By Tara Marie
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- 376
The 5 Most Idiotic Attempts To Save A Life (That Worked)
Disclaimer: If you are currently suffering from an immediate life-threatening condition, note that we are not condoning doing anything stupid like these.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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- 231
6 Insanely Complicated Murder Plots (That Actually Happened)
These seem less like real crimes and more discarded plots from a John Grisham novel starring Rube Goldberg and his gang of drunk helper monkeys.
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- By Adam Wears
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- 320
The 6 Most Ridiculous Things That Are Guarded Like Fort Knox
Everyone says Walt Disney being frozen is a hoax, but given what's locked up in the Disney Archives, we aren't so sure anymore.
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- By Tyler Roney
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- 585
5 Conspiracy Theories That Are Real (But Not How You Think)
It turns out there's some kind of conspiracy Inception going on meant to further specific goals through the spread of misinformation
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- By Gregory Maus
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- 842
5 Mind-Blowing Images That Change How You See Everything
It turns out there are all sorts of previously unseen worlds which science is now opening up to us for the first time, and some of them are weird as hell.
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- By Teddem Yee
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- 427
5 Total Nobodies Who Stumbled Into Huge Conspiracies
'Paul Blart: Mall Cop' was basically a documentary.
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- By Adam Wears
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- 239
5 Kidnappings You Had No Idea Were F'd-Up Nuts
It's no secret that politicians are more prone to kidnappings than most people, but at least you'd expect that they'd catch a break when they die. Not so for Honest Abe.
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- By Zachary Frey
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- 222
The 5 Weirdest Disappearances No One Can Explain
Sometimes people go missing so hard that it's like Doc and Marty jacked up the time stream and erased them entirely from the fabric of existence.
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- By Janel Comeau
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- 515
