Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 Horrifying Things That Happen When You Go Missing
When you disappear for a couple of days and actually make it back, you return with a much better understanding of how the world really responds to a missing persons case.
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- By Ryan Menezes, Megan
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952 The 7 Most Psychotic Ways People Tried to Prove Their Love
These won't melt anyone's heart. They'll put you in jail.
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- By Chris Fox
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8 Hilarious Historical Fears That Seriously Delayed Progress
While it makes sense to get worried when scientists start breeding strains of genetically modified superintelligent flying spiders, there have been panics about even the most mundane, common-sense advancements.
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- By Pat Carnell
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7 More Disgusting Foods Your Grandparents Ate (Taste-Tested)
What sins of the past will he be forced to digest now?
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The 6 Most Obvious Lies People Got Famous Telling the Media
Here are some obvious lies the news media fell for harder than your anti-vaccine and global warming-denying friends on Facebook.
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- By Douglas A. McDonnell
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5 Logical Fallacies That Make Humans Terrible at Democracy
The entire human race sucks at democracy. And we can't even help it.
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- By Michael Hossey
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6 Human Beings Who Just Invented New Forms of Sucking
Every now and again, you encounter individuals who display such transcendent jerkitude that you almost have to admire their commitment to being terrible. Almost.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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5 Feel-Good School Programs With Horrifying Consequences
Everyone involved in the following initiatives meant well, but well-meaning bad ideas are still bad ideas.
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- By Lillian Marx
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5 Powerful Organizations That Started For Stupid Reasons
Every once in a while, a massive organization you think you know turns out to just be using that notion to hide their bizarre and unexpected past.
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- By K. R. Kelleher
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5 Hilariously Horrible Attempts To Teach Kids Real Issues
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- By Hillery Alley
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The 5 Most Inexplicable Things That Instigated Huge Riots
We humans have a special knack for banding together to accomplish a shared goal ... especially when said goal is wantonly breaking shit.
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- By Elorm Kojo Ntumy, Charles Angstrom
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5 Iconic Designs of Famous Characters (That Were Mistakes)
The great, creative minds who've built your world were just as prone to stumbling backward into success as the rest of us.
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- By Simon Bower , B.T. Doran
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The 6 Stupidest Things Done by Criminals in Front of Cops
Sometimes bad guys don't need to get all complicated with their crimes.
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- By Ivan Farkas, Ryan Menezes, Kevin Phelan
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5 Disguised Animals That Must Be a Mind F#@k to Get Eaten By
We've said it before and we'll say it again: You can't trust nature.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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5 Harmless Superstitions With Horrifying Global Consequences
If you step back and take a broader look at the ripples that such preposterous notions send butterfly-effecting across the world, you find that things we tend to think of as 'harmless' superstitions can actually be anything but.
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- By Shannon Dell
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