Cracked Archive - Weird World

5 Surprisingly Common Deaths You Never Considered
Don't get in a bounce house anytime soon.
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- By Ivan Farkas, Jordan Breeding, Eamon Lahiri
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5 Completely Legal Ways Employers Discriminate Against You
Employment is both a legal and moral maze, full of grey areas, exploitable loopholes, and dead ends.
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- By Eamon Lahiri, Britni Patterson
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5 Great Thinker Quotes You're Using Wrong
Spoiler alert: some of the most popular quotes from some of the most famous geniuses don't actually mean what we think they do.
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- By Tim Lieder, Stephan Roget
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5 Extremely Stupid Things We Believe About Rich People
Nobody's asking you to cry for the wealthy, but being rich isn't exactly how you've been picturing it.
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- By Natalie Vail
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4 Popular Stories That Used To Be Way Less Offensive
Some original fairy tales that hail from notoriously sexist eras, often featured women as actual characters. Occasionally, even awesome ones.
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- By Carrie
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5 Geniuses With Hilariously Stupid Creative Processes
Some incredibly successful people can only get work done under conditions so bizarre or idiotic that anyone else would be driven insane within minutes.
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- By Dennis Fulton, Nathan Kamal, Ed Stevens, Molly Khan
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7 Everyday Experiences Other Countries Do Waaay Differently
There's always that ONE country.
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- By Michael Hossey
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5 Amazing Acts Of Mercy Toward Horrible People
When the news cycle is loaded with more violence than we'd prefer, it's nice to here about some acts of incredible human bravery and mercy.
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- By Jordan Breeding, Britni Patterson, Kian Lastman
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6 Mind-Bending Places Where Humans Somehow Have To Work
You may think your workplace is crazy, but, of course, it's not. This is what 'crazy workplace' actually looks like.
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- By Ivan Farkas, M. Doyle, Eamon Lahiri, Luke Miller
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4 Problems That Should Infuriate Americans
You may have noticed that America isn't perfect. But you may not have notice that we suffer from problems you'd think even Third World countries would have eradicated by now.
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- By Jordan Breeding
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5 Absurd Things American Schools Do To Completely Ruin Lunch
American school cafeterias are the stuff of nightmares, with the quality of their food lying somewhere in the range of 'underfunded prison sponsored by McDonald's.'
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- By Jim Avery
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6 Places Around The World Where All Your Old Crap Ends Up
Some things from our past don't have easy dumping grounds like jeans or the elderly, often leaving us to invent new ways of keeping them around.
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- By Justin Crockett
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5 Realities About The World’s Scariest Police Department
The NYPD evolved like they suddenly got blasted by gamma radiation and gained incredible superpowers they had absolutely no idea what to do with.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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The 5 Dumbest Corporate Slapfights That Affect What You Buy
In the course of making a few bad decisions on Amazon, you've accidentally entangled yourself in literally dozens of petty corporate slapfights going on behind the scenes.
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- By James Netter
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7 Policies We're Stuck With Thanks To Stupidity And Greed
Like a butterfly in a $5000 suit flapping its wings, the consequences of a politician wanting a payday can both be unforeseen and devastating.
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- By Mark Hill
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