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10 Words and Phrases You Won't Believe Shakespeare Invented. Shakespeare invented more words than most people even know.

10 Words and Phrases You Won't Believe Shakespeare Invented

Seriously, there's at least 1,500 different words and phrases that don't appear anywhere prior to the Bard of Avon putting them on paper. When he got stuck trying to think up a word, the man just made his own. It's kind of like what rappers do today, except the words Shakespeare made up got embedded into our culture and have formed the cornerstone of our discourse, rather than being obnoxiously spouted by white college students trying to be ironic. And while they weren't all winners ("unhair" still seems to be struggling) others, as you'll see, are so common you've probably already quoted Shakespeare today and you didn't even know it. Fo' sheezy. First Used: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, Scene ii, Oberon to Puck. 6 Inspiring Rags to Riches Stories (That Are Bullshit) Everyone likes a good "rags to riches" story.

6 Inspiring Rags to Riches Stories (That Are Bullshit)

After all, if some dude can go from living in a cardboard box to being the CEO of a major corporation, we can do it too! Unfortunately, it doesn't take a lot of digging into most of these stories to find out they've been, well, inflated a bit. And sometimes, they're complete bullshit. The Rags to Riches Story: Bill was a college dropout who finessed his way into the upper echelons of IBM to sell his operating system. 7 Animals That Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes.

People who doubt evolution tend to have one main argument: "If evolution is true, why do we still see monkeys running around today, all chimp-like?

7 Animals That Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes

Where are all the monkey-men I was promised? " Well, if you or someone you know refuses to believe that organisms change over time without proof on a monkey-man level, here are a buttload of animals in the middle of getting their evolve on. Well, seven anyway. Elephants are Evolving to Lose Their Tusks (and Avoid Poachers) Here's a joke: What did the elephant say to the poacher?

Getty"Stop! Sorry about that. GettyAnd ever since animal rights got involved, unemployment has shot up 300 percent. So elephants have decided to take matters into their own hands ... or trunks or weirdly rounded three-toed feet or whatever. By 2005, it was estimated that the tuskless population had risen to between 5 and 10 percent. GettyJust like your debilitating lisp after reading that out loud Russian Dogs are Evolving to Learn the Subways.

When Video Games Get Stuck In Your Head. "Hey, Portal 2 came today!

When Video Games Get Stuck In Your Head

I'll just pop it in real quick. You know, check it out while the wife is getting ready for bed. Just to see if it's worth keeping. " 4 a.m. I stumble upstairs and into bed, realizing I've forgotten to brush my teeth only after I've already gotten comfortable. 7 Awesome Images That Will Make You Mourn The Space Shuttle. Last week marked the final official mission of the Space Shuttle.

7 Awesome Images That Will Make You Mourn The Space Shuttle

It's over: No more manned space missions on the agenda. As of now, America is pursuing a "flexible path" space-flight program, which essentially means we have nothing. They'll say the program died because of funding cuts and age, but that's not the whole story. Astronauts and the Space Shuttle used to reign as the unquestionable rulers of badass, but then somewhere along the line, cultural opinion shifted, and somehow wrapping a man in a giant metal bullet and firing him into the face of the void became thought of as stuffy and boring. The space program didn't die because of budgetary concerns; it died because we forgot how goddamn awesome it was. . #7. This is the Saturn V rocket, carrying the Apollo 11 moon mission: This is the Discovery launch: This is the Athena II: The Endeavour, mankind's polite rebuttal to the meteor strike. #6.

. #5. The 5 Weirdest Things That Control the Global Economy. The global economy is an insanely complex system of labor, money and goods all governed by laws to keep each facet in check. So it'd be pretty depressing if researchers discovered that the whole thing was actually the end result of a bunch of seemingly random bullshit, wouldn't it? Answer: Yes it would be, and they did. Getty It's widely believed that fraudulent practices like mortgage underwriting and predatory lending were some of the main causes of the 2000s credit crunch, which raises some terrifying concerns: If the state of the economy is so dependent on a handful of people promising not to be greedy, what's really stopping the economy from collapsing all over again as soon as those assholes decide more is better?

Surprisingly, it might be their belief in hell. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. "I hate it when naked men try to swamp my boat. Interestingly, believing in God alone didn't cut it. Luckily there already is a name for it: psychopathy. GettyThe sun: The tequila of Wall Street.