Cracked Archive - Weird World
6 Important Things That Are Done With Insanely Outdated Tech
Imagine a movie from the '80s, with all it's flashy, hilariously corny technology. Now imagine that is a real thing and still being used by our government.
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- By Jeff Feazell
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695 6 Times Family Entertainment Went Horrifically Wrong
Unsurprisingly, when you gather a bunch of animals in one place, the possibility only increases that things will go wrong in very NC-17 ways.
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- By Adam Wears
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The 5 Most Insanely Disturbing Religious Artifacts
Maybe let's reconsider identifying dismembered body parts as religious artifacts.
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- By Cathal McGuigan, Laura H
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6 Monster Legends Too Intense For The Western World
Not surprising: Japan outdoes everyone even with ghost stories.
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- By J.N. Nelson
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17 Celebrities You Didn't Know Died In 2015 (Part 2)
No one chewed less bubblegum and kicked more ass because of it than 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper.
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- By Justin Crockett
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17 Celebrities You Didn't Know Died In 2015 (Part 1)
R.I.P., George Coe. No one could voice a heroin-addicted butler like you could.
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- By Justin Crockett
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6 Cheerful Christmas Traditions With Shockingly Dark Origins
The origin of the Rudolph story is as depressingly cynical as its underlying message.
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- By Pat Carnell
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9 Ads That Should Have Started An Actual War On Christmas
Old-timey Christmas was a strange time, full of alcoholic ghosts and perverted Santas.
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- By Diana McCallum
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6 People With WTF Secret Lives Absolutely Nobody Saw Coming
Be kind to everyone you meet. You never know who is actually an enforcer for a drug dealer or a vampire LARPer.
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- By Zachary Frey
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5 Awesome Acts Of Revenge That Qualify As Creative Genius
Never mess with a 13-year-old and his beloved dog.
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- By Kevin Phelan, Nichole Urban
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6 Popular 'Luxury' Products That Are Based On An Absurd Lie
Beats sold four pairs of their Solos headphones every minute of 2013 thanks, in part, to their weight.
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- By Patrick Coyne
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5 Top Secret WWII Allied Plots That Were Maximum WTF
What's one way to troll the Nazis? By sending six hilariously inadequate planes to bomb Berlin during their anniversary party.
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- By M. Peter Storino
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5 Massive Problems We'd Face Living On Another Planet
There are problems with interplanetary colonization that sci-fi doesn't warn you about -- most of which involve our imminent doom.
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- By Joseph Fernando
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7 Insane Police Tactics That'd Be Funny If They Weren't Real
Tasers are nonlethal weapons that have killed over 500 people, so obviously the next step was to make them bigger and stronger.
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- By Mark Hill
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6 Foreign Words So Dark There Are No English Equivalents
Shockingly, only one of these is German.
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- By Cornelius Heyer
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