Cracked Archive - Weird World
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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444 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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- 559
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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- 501
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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- 467
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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- 1077
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6 Popular Games That Were Meant to Be Totally Different
We're always fascinated by the messy process by which pop culture gets made.
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- By Michael Kane, David Jones
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5 Emergency Drills That Went Horribly Wrong
Here are five examples of what happens when people take the 'pants on fire' approach to emergency preparedness.
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- By Chris Fox
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- 373
5 Fitness Myths You Believe (That Don't Work At All)
Beware when you hear these claims.
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- By Michael Hossey, Ivan Farkas
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5 Popular Figures of Speech That Have Creepy Hidden Meanings
Don't be so quick to dismiss the importance of metaphors.
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- By Cracked Writers
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- 300
5 Insane Things Comic Books Believe Women's Bodies Can Do
It's not only a matter of relying on unrealistic body standards, but doing it to a degree that we're not sure these characters could even survive.
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- By Caitlin Donovan
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5 Staggeringly Huge Disasters Caused by Small Minded Idiots
If you're having a crappy day at work, just know it could be much, much worse.
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- By Zachary Frey
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- 516
5 Moral Crusaders Caught Being the Worst Hypocrite Possible
We're wondering how many of the world's crusaders aren't just trying to compensate for something they're doing on the side.
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- By Kevin Phelan
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- 1148
5 Iconic Fantasy Characters Whose Bodies Wouldn't Work
Sometimes the craziest attributes of a mythological creature -- the things that actually make it impossible -- aren't always what you think.
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- By Justin Crockett, Nathan Murphy
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6 Insane Things Happening Throughout Mexican Cartel Culture
Where Hollywood does a pretty impressive job of glorifying criminals, it hasn't got shit on Mexico's utterly insane cartel culture.
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- By Bastian Espada
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- 599
9 Foreign Terms More Awful Than Any English Profanity
Some languages have words for concepts so weird or off-putting that we can thank the stars we don't have any use for them in everyday English.
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- By Cornelius Heyer
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- 892
