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The 6 Most Childish Things Ever Done in Congress
Sometimes shit gets truly ridiculous in Congress.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Zach Priestly
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513 18 Old-Timey Photos You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
We've worked long and hard here at Cracked to make it clear that the past was badass. All you have to do is sift through old-timey photos, and you quickly realize that people back then possessed neither sanity nor a sense of self-preservation.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 6 Most Epic Escapes Across Hostile Territory
If you aren't currently living in a country occupied by a hostile army, you can't really imagine what it's like knowing that trying to leave home means getting your head blown off. But when people want out badly enough, they find a way. And those ways are absolutely amazing.
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- By Tony Pilgram, Cornelius Appin
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The 7 Most Unexpectedly Awesome Parties in History
We have it better than our ancestors in every way but one: How raging our parties are.
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- By Robert Evans, Jacopo della Quercia
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The 6 Strangest Ways Anyone Was Ever Mistaken for a God
History has shown that through no fault of your own, you can be revered as some religion's immortal deity. All you need is to be in the right place at the right time.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 WWI Fighter Pilots Whose Balls Deserve Their Own Monument
We usually think of fighter pilots as kick ass cowboys of the sky, living out our video game fantasies and handing out bitchin' nicknames all day long. But today's fighter pilots have nothing on the first of their kind -- the ones who appeared in the first world war.
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- By Johnny Lepper
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6 Presidential Secrets Your History Teacher Didn't Mention
We all have personal failures and weaknesses, but a president will work so hard at crafting a specific public persona that we're shocked every time one gets in a sticky situation. With that in mind, here are some of the stranger facts about American presidents that almost never get mentioned in history class.
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- By Ethan Lou
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6 Supervillains From History That Make The Joker Look Subtle
Real-life bad guys understand that dry, drawn-out political subterfuge is much cheaper and more effective than a clone army. Then, occasionally, some crackpot leaps straight off the pages into our world, with brazen, insane and often ridiculous plans for world domination that grant him comic book supervillain status.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Real Historic Battles Decided by Divine Intervention
As it turns out, deus ex machina isn't strictly for fictional scenarios.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 6 Greatest War Heroes Who Got Screwed Out of History
We love us some war heroes. Unfortunately, petty people and circumstances often get in the way of honoring these individuals.
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- By Eric Yosomono
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5 Famous Scientists Dismissed as Morons in Their Time
There have been brilliant rebels who put their own world-changing ideas on the line, only to end up like Doc Brown in his alternate timeline: humiliated, ridiculed, ignored and/or straight driven to insanity.
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- By Anthony Jurado, Nessa B Wilson
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5 Minor Screw-Ups That Created The Modern World
We continue our crusade to convince the world that all of the most important events in history turned on some kind of ridiculous accident.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Real MacGyvers Who Won Battles With Improvised Weapons
If you've ever wondered if you could win a war by using reptiles instead of bullets and using the power of rock 'n' roll, then you're in good company.
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- By Phillip Parsons
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The 5 Most Terrifying Jobs in the History of War
The mind-bogglingly shitty jobs people have gotten stuck with during wartime.
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- By Joshua Sherman
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5 Things You Won't Believe Aren't In the Bible: Updated
As a predominantly Christian people, Westerners think they know the Bible pretty well. But not everybody realizes that many of the most iconic features of Christianity were never mentioned by the holy book or the church, but were actually pulled out of the ass of some poet or artist who wanted to make a few bucks out of it.
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- By Bjorn Karhunen, Jacopo della Quercia
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