Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 Hilarious Jobs People Had to Do Before Modern Technology
Sure, some obscure part of your brain might remember that distant and fantastical time when humans once sewed garments and assembled cars, but you probably had no idea about these gigs.
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- By Alexander Pan
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283 5 Things Movies Always Get Wrong About Space
Thanks to Hollywood magic, we've at least got a pretty good idea of what it's like in space. Right?
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- By Fernando Ramirez, Tim Howell
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6 Works of Propaganda That Backfired in Hilarious Ways
Political propaganda, much like a late-night infomercial, is supposed to make you let someone else screw you over. Sometimes, however, propaganda ends up convincing everyone that the people in positions of power are as dumb as, if not dumber than, everyone else.
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- By Pat Carnell
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6 Shockingly Evil Abuses of Power by School Officials
While you may get some lazy or incompetent faculty, you don't expect these people to be running toddler fight clubs in the basement. And yet ...
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- By A.C. Grimes
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8 Useful Foreign Words the English Language Needs to Steal
Despite the fact that dozens of new slang terms enter the English language on a weekly basis, there are still all sorts of things in our daily lives that just don't have words.
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- By Dominik Zezula
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5 Things Hollywood Gets Wrong About the Apocalypse
Hollywood will leave you ill-prepared for the collapse of society, because it has managed to completely overlook several key aspects of life on post-apocalyptic Earth.
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- By Nick J.
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5 Grossly Inappropriate Jokes on Kids' Comic Book Covers
A quick perusal of kids' comic book covers can tell you that the stories upon these pages can be the stuff of freaking nightmares.
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- By Adam Hirschfeld
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10 Offensive Ads You Won't Believe Are From the Last Decade
These ad execs took these messages, then twisted them until they were confusing, hurtful, or downright disturbing. Then they crapped on them.
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- By Pat Carnell, A.C. Grimes
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6 Smart Movie Characters Who Do Incredibly Dumb Things
Sometimes these supposed geniuses make decisions that even a WWE staff writer would find patently ridiculous.
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- By Nyameye Dwomo-Anokye
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5 Things They Don't Tell You When You Leave the Army
While the military tries its best to show you things like how to write a resume or claim GI Bill benefits, there are some parts of everyday post-combat life they fail to mention.
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- By JD Cano
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5 People Who Became Unwitting Tourist Attractions
Sometimes, fame means little more than taking a full-time job as a depressing sideshow freak. Just ask some of the people who had the misfortune to become human tourist attractions.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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- 248
The 6 Most Horrifying Sex Scenes in Fan Fiction (Pt. 4)
Here are six challenging pieces of fan fiction you can use to ruin any pleasant memories you might have had of the characters involved.
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- By Eric A.
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5 Real People With Mind-Blowing Mutant Superpowers (Part 3)
These select groups of gifted individuals, whether they were born better than us or simply became so over time, have abilities that make them stronger, keener, faster ... and probably totally smug about it, too.
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- By Xavier Jackson, Dennis Fulton, Carmen Burana
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5 Amazing Wizard Tricks You Can Do With Basic Math
While only the highest Numerati may understand the spellcraft that makes our modern wonders possible, even a Level 1 Math Wizard wielding basic fourth grade arithmetic can pull off seemingly impossible feats.
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- By Teddem Yee
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5 Sites That Prove the U.S. Government Sucks at the Internet
These were all funded by your tax dollars, of course.
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- By Gavin Jamieson
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