Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 Really Stupid Jokes Hidden In Really Smart Places
It isn't easy to hide a joke in the Periodic Table, but it happened.
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- By Teddem Yee, Stronzo Bestiale
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116 6 Holiday Traditions From History So Creepy We Killed Them
It took a long time for the most famous holidays to get their acts together and stop being inexplicably terrifying.
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- By Cedric Voets
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5 Bizarre Groups That Run Entire Foreign Countries
The only thing stopping America from being run by a single corporate overlord is the several other corporate overlords vying for the position.
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- By Eamon Lahiri
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- 240
6 Kids Books With Not-Even-Hidden F**ked Up Messages
Seriously, tell us we're not overthinking these.
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- By Cracked Writers
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- 358
6 Easter Eggs You Didn't Know Are Hidden In Famous Landmarks
While you're busy trying to snap the perfect selfie, you're missing out on the cool little secrets lurking everywhere.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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- 147
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5 High IQ Idiots Who Destroyed Irreplaceable Things
Everybody makes mistakes. Just, you know, some are little and some are crimes against humanity.
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- By Kelly Stone
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- 302
7 Honest Attempts To Educate Kids (That Went Horribly Wrong)
If you get too creative in passing along your amazing lessons, you might end up looking like one of these idiots.
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- By Jason Iannone
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- 412
5 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (Solved With Basic Science)
Time to destroy some wondrous mysteries of life!
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- By Tara Marie
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- 282
6 Movie Monsters (You Didn't Realize Are Centuries Old)
Despite famines, plagues, body lice, and getting crushed by runaway donkey carts, our ancestors' ideas of monsters were spookily similar to ours.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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- 192
5 Universal Experiences That Are Different In Other Cultures
In a lot of cases, it's not who you are, it's where you're from.
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- By Ivan Farkas, Tyler Peterson
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5 Random Places That Produced An Eerily High Number Of Stars
There's 'this place is favorable to artists,' and then there's 'somebody is clearly growing rock stars in a lab in Virginia.'
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- By Christopher Charles Slayter
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5 Ways We Are Absolutely Lost When It Comes To Mental Health
Medically speaking, we've made some huge strides in recent history. Huge, huge strides. In the wrong direction.
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- By E. Fitzgerald
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- 265
6 Gloriously Insane Urban Legends You’ll Wish Are True
These theories aren't just fake, they're also so fun that you'll wish they really happened.
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- By Adam Wears
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- 314
6 Side Effects Of Famous Charities That Make Things Worse
The glut of donated supplies following a tragedy is such a problem that emergency workers have a term for it --
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- By Natalie Vail, Ashley Y, Jamie Wyman, Ryan Reyes
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7 WTF Ways Famous Companies Rip You Off Every Day
These methods of screwing the consumer are as petty as they are impressive.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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