Cracked Archive - History
5 Food Items That Were Preposterously Advertised to Build Muscles
Back in the early 20th century, whiskey and chocolate were marketed as that era’s pre-workout
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1 4 Petty Reasons Behind Government Lies
We can understand covering up murder, but not this
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Deaths That Saved A Ton of Lives
Looking at some of history’s bravest corpses
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Resurrected Ancient Messages That Are Still Super Relatable Today
Have you ever wondered how much Romans loved their dogs?
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Devious Tricks Armies Used to Look Bigger
SEAL Team Six? More like SEAL Team fibs
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Real-Life Robin Hoods Who Singlehandedly Redistributed Wealth
I swear, no sympathy for a man who had his solid gold statues stolen!
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- By Eli Yudin
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6 Secrets We Once Knew But Are Now Lost to History
Something terrible happened in 1458, but no one wrote it down
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 People From History Who Loved Their Pets a Little Too Much
Would you rather go to your father’s funeral, or the funeral for your bird?
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Innovators Who Went Back for Seconds and Immediately Regretted It
The third time might be the charm, but the second time is a nightmare
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Old-Timey Medicines That Weren’t Complete Horse-Pucky
Rub some garlic on it!
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- By Eli Yudin
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History’s Four Most Disastrous Typos
Sacrilege is sometimes nothing more than a missing word
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- By Amanda Mannen
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4 Innocuous Things That Prevented World War III
Thank god for photographers with balls of steel
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- By Eli Yudin
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4 Ads That Continued Long After the Product They Plugged Was Gone
Look out a plane window, and you’ll see a 90-year-old ad carved into the forest
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- By Ryan Menezes
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4 Common Expressions With Surprisingly Dirty Origins
Yes, the original meaning of ‘poppycock’ is filthy. But not for the reasons you might think
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Four Hilariously Teeny-Tiny Wars
They were so small and insignificant that they almost escaped notice altogether
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- By Amanda Mannen
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