Cracked Archive - Weird World

6 WTF Things You Had No Idea Tobacco Companies Got Away With
With everyone knowing how dangerous their products are, Tobacco companies have developed insidious tactics to stay relevant.
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- By Nimby Smith
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5 Tiny Groups Of Nobodies That Are Shockingly Powerful
There actually ARE hidden groups that control huge aspects of your daily life.
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- By Adam Koski, Nathan Kamal, Ryan O'Keefe
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6 WTF Realities Of Common Food You Buy At The Supermarket
No diet will be more effective than simply reading about all the crap (sometimes for real) they're putting in your chow.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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The 5 Most Disastrous Typos In Human History
Sometimes typos are a much bigger deal than you think.
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- By James Burtoft
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8 Statues So Clinically Berserk They Don’t Seem Possible
NSFW Warning: All is fair in art, but that won't stop you from getting the stink eye for looking at bronze vaginas on the bus.
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- By Chris Radomile
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5 People You're A Huge Fan Of Without Realizing It
Little did you know that these people have impacted your life in some way or another.
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- By Adam Koski, Andrea Meno
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7 Times Of Year You're More Likely To Die Out Of The Blue
When we look at statistics, they reveal that there are many more hidden ways that the time of year (or even day) can destroy you.
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- By Jim Avery
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5 Real-Life Crimes With Dumber Twists Than Any Crime Show
The universe remains a huge fan of revelations that would be deemed laughably implausible in a Hollywood screenplay.
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- By Jordan Breeding
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7 Beautiful Vacation Spots (That Want To Kill You Dead)
Real danger comes from the outside. Especially the gorgeous, scenic outside in the Facebook photos of your richer friends.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Nightmare Stories To Justify Anyone's Irrational Fears
Humans are famous for being afraid of all the wrong things. But those 'wrong things' do happen from time to time.
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- By Ivan Farkas, P. Chung, Jordan Breeding, Alyssa Feller
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5 Things That Only Still Exist Because We're Used To Them
Sometimes outdated ideas live on purely by inertia.
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- By John Martin, Luke Miller
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9 Everyday Household Items (Only Rich Idiots Would Buy)
If you're an individual that has bought anything on this list, we have a bridge to sell you.
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- By Kelly Stone
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6 Huge Side Effects Of Legal Weed (Nobody's Talking About)
Unfortunately for those who wanted their legal weed to come with a mellow high, it turns out that marijuana legislation has some crappy side effects.
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- By Nimby Smith
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6 Absurd Action Tropes You Never Noticed And Can't Unsee
There are some odd storytelling crutches that action movies have given up trying to work around.
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- By Saikat Bhowmik, Nathan Wadowski, Andrea Meno
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6 Impostors Who Took Fraud To WTF New Levels
A few of the weirdest, laziest frauds out there have managed to get so far with such ridiculous lies that it makes us worry.
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- By Nimby Smith
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