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30 Hobbies That Are Weird and Boring at Best, Toxic and Harmful at Worst

March 30, 2024

If you’re lucky, life can be pretty long. If you’re even luckier, your life will have so many stress-free moments that you’ll actually get a little bored. So you’ll probably want to kill off all that boredom with a hobby or pastime. Or maybe it should be pass-time. Either way, we see what they did there. Words are fun.

Anyway, where were we? Oh, yeah — people have passed the time in all kinds of ridiculous ways, so let’s pass some time reading about passing time.

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celebrity Hobbies Amanda seyfried collects taxidermy. The actor developed this fascination after visiting a taxidermy store in Paris, and has since collected a stuffed deer, owl, zebra, and other animals. You know, regular stuff that isn't like the TV show Hannibal. CRACKED.COM — Source

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celebrity Hobbies M ON scurves David Arquette little CARDO research loves to knit. Alv Edular The Scream star and occasional pro wrestler learned to knit from his grandmother.. He's so good that he graves the cover of Celebrity Scarves 2, a knitting book that raises money for breast cancer research. CRACKED.COM — Source

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celebrity Hobbies Dave Bautista loves collecting lunch boxes. The former pro wrestler and Guardian of the Galaxy has a vast lunch box collection, and is known to give lunch boxes as gifts to friends according to their interests. CRACKED.COM — Source

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celebrity Hobbies Dominic Monaghan loves spiders and lizards. Ever since he was a kid, the Lord of the Rings/ Lost actor had been fascinated with lizards and bugs, keeping them as pets. Не even has a recently discovered species of spider named after him! CRACKED.COM — Source

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celebrity Hobbies Joe Maganiello Z 20 loves D&D. 5 8 2 9V The towering Magic Mike star spends his free time playing Dungeons & Dragons in his gaming room. Не hosts a regular game with other actors and writers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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celebrity Hobbies Leslie Mann does unicycle tricks. The actor has been a unicyclist ever since she got one of the one-wheeled bikes for Christmas when she was ten. She loves to jump off curbs and cycle backwards. CRACKED.COM — Source

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celebrity Hobbies Nick offerman is just Ron swanson. While he is different from his Parks and Rec character, Offerman shares Swanson's love of the outdoors and woodworking, and has his own woodworking shop. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hobbies older than we knew PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL LEAGUE 1904 Trading GLEASON, 2ND BASE. PLAYER CARD. cards The world's oldest trading card game is Allegheny Card Co.'s Base Ball Card Game set, which flopped when it came out in 1904. The cards are super rare, and mint condition decks can go for around $500. CRACKED — Source

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Hobbies older than we knew 1869 College football On November 6, 1869, Rutgers beat Princeton 6-4 in the first college football game, which looked more like rugby than today's football. The two New Jersey schools already had a heated rivalry before the game. CRACKED — Source

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Hobbies older than we knew Some time ВСЕ Being mean on social media UNDVAL UNIVROC (LOI Graffiti in Herculaneum and Pompeii shows Romans had a sense of humor pretty much like us, and all the graffiti taken together kind of read like an ancient version of Twitter. One reads, Amplicatus, I know Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this. CRACKED — Source

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Hobbies older than we knew Very early CE Shopping Ancient Rome was a bustling city of one million in early CE, with shops and workshops lining the streets. The poet Martial said it looked like one big shop, until Domitian banned it. CRACKED — Source

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Old Hobbies

Hobbies older than we knew Drinking in a bar Before Christ Roman expansion into Celtic Europe brought taverns, which served as hostels and restaurants. They eventually became a spot for locals to chat about politics, business, and family. CRACKED — Source

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celebrity Hobbies Nicole Kidman jumps out of planes. Kidman has her own skydiving license, and recommends that every woman does it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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celebrity Hobbies MOET ЧОР MOET MITT MOET Paris Hilton is a frog hunter. The socialite has admitted that one of her favorite pastimes is to grab a bucket and catch some frogs at her various ranches. Sounds amazingly inexpensive. CRACKED.COM — Source

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celebrity Hobbies MB i I Dream Quentin Tarantino NEW im of Jeannie GAME collects board games MILTON based on old TV shows. MARATHON GRADLEY The gritty film director has a niche hobby of collecting vintage board games licensed by classic television shows, such as I Dream of Jeannie, The A-Team, and The Dukes of Hazzard. CRACKED.COM — Source

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celebrity Hobbies shailene woodley makes her own toothpaste. In an interview with GQ, the actor revealed that she likes to brush her teeth with her own home-made concoction, and even shared a recipe. CRACKED.COM — Source

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celebrity Hobbies Beyoncé has actual beehives. The Queen В herself has two beehives with 80,000 bees, collecting hundreds of jars of honey each year. GRACKED.COM — Source

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celebrity Hobbies simon cowell loves watching cartoons! The hard to impress X Factor judge is a kid at heart when it comes to TV, preferring to start his morning by watching classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Susan Sarandon

celebrity Hobbies susan sarandon will school you at ping pong. The Oscar winner is a huge fan, as it's a game that people of any size, age, or gender can play competitively against one another. She even supports a program that brings ping pong tables to underprivileged schools. CRACKED.COM — Source

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celebrity Hobbies Taylor swift makes snow globes. When she's not killing it in record sales or writing a new song about some ex, Swift enjoys making Christmas in a jar, with glitter as gifts to her friends. CRACKED.COM — Source

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celebrity Hobbies Tom Hanks collects vintage typewriters. Hanks enjoys collecting, refurbishing, and using MS Word's mechanical grandaddies. Не often writes letters to friends and fans with them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED ACTION PARK Action Park in Vernon, NJ, was one of the first modern water parks in the US. It was known for its risky attractions, like the Tidal Wave Pool, nicknamed The Grave Pool because it needed 30 rescues a day. Just imagine that kind of thing today. K A O on P — Source

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CRACKED DWARF TOSSING In the 1980s, people with dwarfism were sometimes paid to be thrown at a wall with a target on it. They wore special padding and the wall was covered in Velcro but, damn, still. — Source

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CRACKED SHEEP FIGHTING Sheep fighting is still popular among the younger generation in Algeria, even though it's technically illegal. It's like cockfighting, but a bit more sedate, and authorities usually turn a blind eye to it. — Source

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CRACKED DAGGERING Daggering is a dance popular in Jamaica. It looks like rhythmic dry-humping, and daggering music has been banned from broadcast because of how explicit it is. It's caused a lot of serious injuries, including (don't laugh) broken penises. — Source

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CRACKED WRESTLING OCTOPUSES In the past, people used to wrestle octopuses as a sport in the US from 1949 to the mid-1960s, but now it's against the law in many places. Thankfully. — Source

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Dueling

CRACKED DUELING WITH WAX BULLETS In the early 1900s, people used to settle disputes by having a duel with wax bullets - a safe way to protect their pride. Nowadays, though, this kind of dueling is extremely against the law. — Source

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Fox Tossing

CRACKED FOX TOSSING Back in the 18th century, German aristocrats had a really weird sport called Fox Tossing. Basically, they'd let foxes, badgers, and wildcats into an arena, then fling them by pulling a cloth tight and releasing it. — Source

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CRACKED GOOSE PULLING People in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany used to enjoy this cruel sport that involved a tied-up goose and humans trying to yank its head. It was popular from the 1700s to the 1800s, but would - mercifully - be illegal now. — Source

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CRACKED NUKE-WATCHING PICNICS In the 1950s, people in Nevada used to go on trips to places near ground zero of atomic explosions. They'd bring atomic box lunches and have picnics (although Uncle Sam wouldn't let them get too close). — Source

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