Cracked Archive - History
5 Prominent People Who Just Up And Vanished
They never found the body
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- By Ryan Menezes
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4 5 Monuments to Failure That Are Still Standing
It’s about history, or something!
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Arcane Athletic Achievements That Are Still Extremely Impressive
How many oxen do you haul, bro?
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Tiny Things That Took Out Bona Fide Badasses
Watch those heels, Achilles!
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- By Eli Yudin
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Four Amazingly Racist Scientific Theories
If only we could say all of these were conceived a long time ago
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Modern Foods That Would Kill A Pilgrim
Halloween would have been an absolute bloodbath
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Sites of Historical Atrocities That Have Tried to Rebrand
Grieve the horrors of 9/11 in a warm quarter-zip fleece!
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- By Eli Yudin
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4 Historical Documents That Challenge Our Vision of the Past
Don’t build a time machine to meet Sun Tzu just yet
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- By Eli Yudin
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The ‘Father of Handwashing’ Died a Cruel, Ironic Death
It was impossible to wash away the jealousy and contempt of his colleagues
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- By Jesse
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The 4 Dumbest Blunders by the CIA’s Worst Agent
There’s failing up, and then there’s Aldrich Ames’ journey to the top
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- By Jesse
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5 Totally Documented, Totally Earnest Attempts to Prove Telepathy Is Real
How else would I be able to predict YouTube comments so accurately?
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Toys That Started Out As Very Serious Big Boy Inventions
If it won’t take out enemy combatants, see if Toys ‘R’ Us wants it
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- By Eli Yudin
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4 Grisly Crimes We Wish We Never Heard About
These stories are not for the faint of heart. Or for anyone, really
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Spooky Ways Our Ancestors Used to Entertain Themselves
Before haunted houses, we watched people stab each other onstage
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Disastrous Dining Choices from History
Dinner choices that make peanut butter from the jar look like a stroke of genius
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- By Eli Yudin
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