Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 Cool Secret Codes Hiding In Plain Sight Around The World
Movie and video game Easter eggs are cool and all, but there are far better secrets hidden all around you.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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306 5 Everyday Things You See Online (That Are Brainwashing You)
All the next evil mastermind hellbent on world domination simply needs is a basic understanding of how the rest of us use the internet.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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6 Human Quirks You Didn't Know Have Evolutionary Origins
Why do we share so many strange little tics, and where did they come from? What purpose do they serve? Turns out we can answer some of those questions.
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- By Joe Bayfield, Guidodo
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5 Safety Laws You Won't Believe Don't Exist
Most people aren't aware of instances like these, in which the government failed us so hard that it damn near killed us.
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- By Kasper Kauhanen
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5 Torture Methods Used In Mental Hospitals Way Too Recently
All science is a process of trial and error. In the case of psychiatry, those errors can mean dick-ogling and poop paintings.
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- By Gregory Maus
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5 Real Vacations That Went Worse Than You Thought Possible
Generally, having a bad vacation doesn't usually mean getting stabbed by a prison gang or being conscripted into a foreign army.
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- By Zachary Frey
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6 Literary Turds (Written By Your Favorite Authors)
Even the best writers are capable of churning out work that wouldn't even cut the mustard on a 'Twilight' meets 'Minions' erotic fiction blog.
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- By JM McNab
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Attempts To Sneak Tiny Crimes That Set Off Biblical Disaster
We've all come up with at least one clever scheme that's gone wrong. But none of them have gone murderously wrong.
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- By Micky McMichaelson
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6 Times Famous Geniuses Sold Out (And S*** Got Weird)
It turns out that making art and tricking people into buying stuff are two very different skill sets, and artistic visionaries don't make very good marketing drones.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Shockingly Offensive Ads That Came Out Way Too Recently
Turns out every idiot from college that thought domestic abuse and casual racism are hilarious went into advertising.
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- By Tanya Lukyanova
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6 Works Of Art Made Possible By An Absurd Amount Of Drugs
This is how you write off drugs as a work expense.
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- By Dallas Jeffs
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5 Times Censorship Just Made Everything Way Worse
Really, censorship is just making everything worse.
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- By Henrik Magnusson , B.T. Doran
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6 Legal Loopholes That Criminals Love To Exploit
A lot of time and effort goes into crafting the laws of our society, but every once in a while our devoted lawmakers will overlook a tiny little detail or two.
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- By Jason Iannone
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7 Safety PSAs (That Were Clearly Made By Serial Killers)
Sometimes keeping the public from killing themselves gets communicated in batshit crazy ways that are as scarring as death itself.
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- By JM McNab
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5 Eerie Conspiracies Theorists Were Right About All Along
Every once in awhile, what may look like a stupid conspiracy theory turns out to be something that very much happened.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Sergei Korolev
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