Cracked Archive - Weird World
The 5 Most Half Assed Ways People Found Priceless Artifacts
Sometimes the accidental results of mundane tasks such as taking your dog for a walk or stopping by a sad yard sale wind up unearthing some of the most significant discoveries.
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- By Tara Marie
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200 6 Legitimate Goddamn Heroes You Didn't Know Got Screwed Over
The universe is ruled by a blind, mad god who feasts on pain and chaos.
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- By Tara Marie
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The DC Rape Coverup And 5 Other Horrendous Superhero Plots
If you dig back through the comics, you find that the moral histories of all of your favorite characters are messy, to say the least.
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- By Henrik Magnusson , Tara Marie
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8 Attempts To Stay Hip By Brands (Who Aren't Fooling Anyone)
Millennials are a coveted demographic for advertisers, but like every generation of young people before them, it gets really embarrassing when people try marketing to them.
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- By Michael Dawson
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Lies That The Whole World Believed
We all know that the media is awash in lies and half-truths. It's a continuous struggle between truth-seekers and B.S. artists, and the problem is that the second group has some pretty dedicated people on its side.
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- By Tara Marie
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6 Plants And Fungi Designed By Mother Nature (And Satan)
While you've been over there getting all creeped out by sharks and spiders, the plant world has been over here, quietly evolving horrors for millions of years.
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- By Eamon Lahiri
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6 Dark Secrets Of Being An Olympic Athlete Nobody Tells You
You might think that the worst thing that can happen to an Olympic athlete is having to raise the Kardashian kids, it turns out that the job comes with a lot of depressing baggage.
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- By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
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5 Medical Myths And Prejudices That Kill People Every Day
Some of the factors standing between us and adequate medical care serve as reminders of how far we are from a Utopian society in which no one is forced to wonder if that thing on their back is cancer.
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- By Natalie Vail
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5 Horrifying Laws It Took WAY Too Long To Fix
One hopes that when nations refer to their bleak history, they mean centuries ago, and not 'earlier this morning.'
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- By Mordecai Jones
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6 Dark Movies You'll Never See The Same Knowing Their Origin
Many of the byzantine horrors we see today were thought up by writers standing in line to buy a new mattress -- or something equally boring and mundane.
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- By JM McNab
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5 Problems Superheroes Would Have (Movies Don't Address)
Wouldn't it be awesome if your favorite superheroes came to life? Actually, it turns out that'd be more than a little complicated.
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- By Stephan Roget
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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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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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