Cracked Archive - History
The 6 Most Insane Underdog Stories in the History of Battle
Real-world battles are rarely won by the ragtag team of underdogs. Tanks beat horses, guns beat spears. Though sometimes, the ewoks really do kick ass.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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941 5 Simple Things You Won't Believe Are Recent Inventions
We're impressed by new gizmos, sure, but we tend to forget that even the most obvious, basic concepts had to be invented at some point. And some of them were shockingly recent.
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- By Eric Yosomono
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Assassination Plots Ever Attempted
Murder is no joke. Failed assassination attempts are.
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- By Jim Avery
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5 Fictional Stories You Were Taught in History Class
Forget about Stephanie Meyer or JK Rowling or Stephen King--at the end of the day, they just write stories and make billions of dollars. No, the writers who really deserve a pat on the back are the ones who wrote completely fictional stories that, over time, were remembered as actual history.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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5 Inventions You Won't Believe Came From War
You can't deny that armed conflicts gave us some pretty good things, such as major advances in everything from rockets to microwave ovens. Oh, and this stuff.
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- By Jack Mendoza
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7 Famous Works of Art With Bizarre Mistakes You Can't Unsee
Cracked: Finding dicks in academia since 1956.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Amazingly High-Tech Ancient Weapons
One thing you should never underestimate is mankind's ability to come up with cool-ass ways to kill each other.
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- By Colin Murdock
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5 Real Historical Death Stars (Complete With Baffling Flaws)
Why did the Empire spend all that time and money building the Death Star, only to leave that vulnerable exhaust port wide open? That question marks the end of your naive childhood and the beginning of your life as a cynical adult.
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- By Phillip Parsons
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5 Ridiculous Ancient Beliefs That Turned Out to Be True
Once again, the nutbags that are our ancestors beat us to the punch.
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- By CRACKED Staff, Sam Blitz
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5 World Changing Decisions Made For Ridiculous Reasons
Apparently some of the most important changes in pop culture and world history have turned on some guy shrugging and saying, 'screw it.'
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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6 Acts of Propaganda That Backfired Hilariously
When fooling the world is your business, there isn't much room for mistakes. Or so you'd think.
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- By Claire G.
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The 6 Worst Jobs Ever (Were Done by Children)
Back in the day, people had only one reason to produce offspring: To force them to do the abhorrently awful work no grown person would dare to.
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- By Shelby Fero
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6 Things From History Everyone Pictures Incorrectly: Classic
Unsurprisingly, our image of the past is largely made up of Hollywood inventions, propaganda and uneducated guesses.
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- By Alexander L. Hoffman
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8 Historic Symbols That Mean The Opposite of What You Think
Wwhat do you do if the real world doesn't provide you with something people can rally around? Just go ahead an embelish the truth.
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- By Philip Moon
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5 Awful Afflictions That Changed The World (For The Better)
Thanks, Incest!
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- By Robert Evans, Philip Moon
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