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UAE

WEIRD WORLD In a sitcom-style plot, 3 Nigerian men tried to pass as Arab women at an airport. C9-C23 C9-C2 Gru Kids UAE police busted them, and posted photos of them with and without their disguises. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Golfers

WEIRD WORLD In Texas, golfers apparently shut down a home daycare. That's what the woman who ran it alleges - the golfers complained about the noise, she says, so city officials shut it down. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cannabis Farms

WEIRD WORLD In a UK town, weed is causing massive power outages on a regular basis. There are so many cannabis farms that power outages are happening on a daily basis. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Walmart

WEIRD WORLD Walmart apparently mistook a Black correction officer for a shoplifter. Walmart '14' 16e 28th 12 - '88 - - I 29 49 26 . 16 سم - 44RD So, after he got handcuffed and wrongfully accused of shoplifting, he's suing, claiming that he was racially profiled. CRACKED.COM — Source

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World Record in Running

WEIRD WORLD A 105-year-old just set a world record in running (but she's not thrilled about it). NOT - TYE INB IND You'd think she'd be over the moon, but she says she wanted to do it in less than a minute. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Berlin

WEIRD WORLD You can now get on public transport in Berlin with an edible hemp ticket. Well, maybe you can - the tickets are printed in a limited-edition run, and they contain no illegal substances, but the paper they're printed on is coated in hemp oil from the cannabis plant. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cars

WEIRD WORLD The pandemic brought one good thing to France: fewer burned cars. Normally, lots of cars get torched on New Year's Eve in France - but, due to the pandemic, that number was way lower. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kidnapping

WEIRD WORLD A young woman faked her own kidnapping to get away from her husband. adidas - - THE pullvaryt Pizza® Domino's Fresh Arrives ade sh So she staged the whole thing at Domino's Pizza in Sioux Falls, where she worked. The whole plan failed, and she was arrested on multiple charges. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Microsoft

WEIRD WORLD Microsoft is complaining about Apple exploiting its monopoly position. If Apple's power doesn't get curbed now, Microsoft argues, it'll only start behaving worse - in support of a gaming-related court case against Apple, Microsoft said that the potential antitrust issues stretch CRACKED.COM far beyond gaming. — Source

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Pope Benedict XVI

WEIRD WORLD Benedict XVI, who had retired from the рарасу, asked for forgiveness. Which might not be that weird, if he had confessed to doing anything wrong, but no - he simply wanted forgiveness for any grievous faults in the way he'd handled sex abuse incidents, but never said he specifically did anything wrong. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pillow Fighting

WEIRD WORLD Apparently, pillow fighting and drone racing might one day be Olympic sports. They've been suggested as a replacement for riding, the fifth sport in the modern pentathlon. CRACKED.COM — Source

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RadioSham

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Turtles

WEIRD WORLD An African tortoise walking down a Pennsylvania road led to 911 calls. Apparently, people were afraid the large turtle moving right down the middle of the road could be a snapping turtle. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lay’s

WEIRD WORLD Lay's is now making chips from potatoes grown in NFL stadium dirt. The new, limited-edition Golden Grounds chips are literally grown in soil that was taken from NFL stadiums and fields. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Snakes

WEIRD WORLD Someone in Maryland tried to fight snakes in their house... ... and burned it down. The homeowner destroyed their house in an attempt to control a snake infestation, officials said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fake Poop

WEIRD WORLD The feds started investigating someone who had been sending fake poop. The perp kept sending the, uh, stuff to a postal employee for reasons that are currently unclear. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Plumbers

WEIRD WORLD We found out that plumbers call the day after Thanksgiving Brown Friday. And it's because, on that day, lavish Thanksgiving meals lead to a massive surge in business for them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GEICO

WEIRD WORLD After a woman got an STD in a GEICO-insured car, she actually sued GEICO. In 2017, she had unprotected sex with a man in his (improbably appropriate) Hyundai Genesis, and she thinks his insurance should cover her STD. CRACKED.COM — Source: Insurance Journal

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Vienna

WEIRD WORLD The tourism board of Vienna opened an OnlyFans account for - museums. All social networks censored the artistic nudity in its museums' images, so the OnlyFans thing was a gimmick to draw attention to that. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

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Ocean Cleanup

WEIRD WORLD An ocean cleanup crew got accused of faking it because the plastic looked fake. The plastic looked too clean, actually - so the crew were accused that they'd just staged removing it from the ocean. CRACKED.COM — Source

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AirPods

WEIRD WORLD Apparently, a woman managed to swallow an Airpod instead of a painkiller. It happened when she was getting into bed with an Airpod in one hand an ibuprofen in another (and she claims she recorded her own stomach). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Coaches

WEIRD WORLD One teen sued his coaches for forcing him to eat pizza. 0 C Не also sued the school district - and the problem was that, apparently, eating pizza violated his religious convictions, so the coaches' actions infringed on his religious freedom. CRACKED.COM — Source

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TikTok

WEIRD WORLD A TikTok trend made it sound like there'd be school shootings ... but поре. Tik Tok It was called National Shoot Up Your School Day - seriously - and school officials were afraid there'd be actual shootings. There weren't. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Winter Olympics

WEIRD WORLD Real snow fell on the Winter Olympics, which led to problems. EAD HE For skiers, that is - it lowered visibility, which made things harder for them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pittsburgh Bridge

WEIRD WORLD A Pittsburgh bridge collapsed ahead of Biden's official visit. And to make it even more embarrassing, Biden was scheduled to come to Pittsburgh and talk about infrastructure. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Weezify

WEIRD WORLD If you like Spotify, there's now a Weezer-centric version, called Weezify. It was launched by Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo, and it made thousands of Weezer demos available for streaming. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cambridge University

WEIRD WORLD Students at Cambridge University are unhappy that there's no pastry chef. It's so bad, they're now complaining that they have to settle for the horror of store-bought cakes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Thief

WEIRD WORLD In Florida, a 9-year-old succesfully protected her mom from a would-be thief. BURRE The woman was grocery shopping when someone came up and tried to steal her purse, but her daughter punched him in the head several times. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Largest Potato

WEIRD WORLD The world's largest potato, an utter monstrosity, was dug up in New Zealand. The potato holding the Guinness World Record weighs 5 kg, but this one weighs 7.9 kg (or 17.4 pounds), so it'll probably take the #1 spot. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Samurai

WEIRD WORLD The Ukrainian Ambassador to Japan posed as a Samurai warrior. It was for a message to Russia that he tweeted - and he was in full Samurai get-up, with a katana and everything. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mike Lindell

WEIRD WORLD MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell will give 10,000 MyPillows to Canada protesters. His plan is to airdrop them to protesters with little parachutes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Marjorie Taylor Greene

WEIRD WORLD A Republican congresswoman made a truly weird Nazi-related gaffe. Apparently, she was trying to reference the Gestapo but, alas, she said Gazpacho instead. Truly, who among us has not confused brutal secret police with a kind of soup? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Weed

WEIRD WORLD A Louisiana Senate candidate has an ad in which he smokes marijuana. I hope this ad works to not only destigmatize the use of marijuana, but also forces a new conversation that creates the pathway to legalize this beneficial drug, and forgive those who were arrested due to outdated ideology, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Guinness

WEIRD WORLD Two guys broke a Guinness World Record by walking up some stairs. Specifically, one of them was balanced on the other's head, and they made it up 100 stairs that way. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Playing Her Own Daughter

WEIRD WORLD A 48-year-old woman lived as her 22-year-old daughter, a university student. She did that for two years, and held a job at a library and had boyfriends who seriously thought she was 22 years old. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Montreal

WEIRD WORLD In Montreal, the mafia are worrying that young mafiosos are phone-addicted. Older bosses complain that the young generation does everything through text messaging, including threats and intimidation. CRACKED.COM — Source: Montreal Gazette

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Groceries

WEIRD WORLD A UK woman was left shaken by a shop worker scanning groceries. (illustration) He was piling the food high, and she couldn't keep up - he could see my struggle and when a tin finally fell, I began crying and shaking, she said. CRACKED.COM — Source: Gazette Live

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Utah

WEIRD WORLD A random person demanded that the Utah governor changed his last name. The letter from the very concerned citizen demanded that Gov. Spencer Cox change his last name - -because it sounds obscene. CRACKED.COM — Source: Fox13Now

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Blind Date

WEIRD WORLD Because of a blind date, one woman was locked down in a random apartment. She went on a blind date with a guy, and then a snap lockdown in Zhengzhou, China, hit - and she had to stay at his place for days. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Google Maps

WEIRD WORLD Because of Google Maps, an Indonesian guy nearly married a stranger. RA. MIFTAHUL 1 TPA-TPQ JANNAH CIMANGOU KECK RT OI/II 2018.11.13 09:2 The app took him to the wrong wedding venue - apparently, there was both a wedding and an engagement taking place at the same village. CRACKED.COM — Source

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