Cracked Archive - Weird World
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The 6 Most WTF Military Weapons Anyone Was Ever Killed By
If the enemy is prepared for every non-stupid contingency, that means you have only one option left. And many times, the stupid option works.
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- By M. Peter Storino
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6 Impressive Titles That Aren't As Impressive As You Think
Around 2,000 people are knighted every year, and not a single one of them won a jousting tourney.
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- By Rachel P., Lisa Olsen
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5 Shockingly Outdated Problems Modern Women Face At Work
Most of the headwinds women face when trying to advance in the workplace exist due to cultural inertia. This is how we've always done it, and fundamental habits are hard to change.
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- By Natalie Vail
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5 Killer Pranks That Prove Politicians Have A Sense Of Humor
No matter what echelon of society you live in, there is a part of the human brain that stops aging in high school.
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- By Nathan Murphy
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7 Famous Mascots (Who Once Looked Scary As Hell)
Cutesy, huggable mascots are a shockingly new corporate strategy. Up until recently, characters of the 'Did Satan create this?' variety were fairly commonplace.
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- By Jason Iannone
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