Cracked Archive - History
26 Comparisons That Will Destroy How You See History
Your entire perception of history is totally whacked out, and we're going to prove it.
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- By AM Smiley
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1333 5 Horrifying Attacks on America Your History Books Left Out
If this stuff happened today, there'd be a war. But due to extenuating circumstances at the time, they barely dented history.
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- By Zachary Frey
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7 Medically Proven Treatments That Clearly Started as a Joke
It's often downright baffling that a) people came up with these ideas and b) that it totally freaking worked.
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- By John Dubensky, Lillian Marx, JM McNab, Jordan Rudow
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5 Epic Disasters at Sea (Survived by Un-killable Badasses)
History is full of shipwreck survivors so bizarrely unkillable that they seemed to go out of their way to mock Death itself, right to his stupid, bony face.
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- By Orrin R. K., Nyameye Dwomo-Anokye
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6 Historic Events You Didn't Realize Everyone Was Drunk For
If you're ever reading about a historical event and something just doesn't seem to add up, it's because the editors cut the line 'and, of course, they were all wasted.'
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- By Pat Carnell
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7 Amazing Works of Pop Culture That Have Been Lost Forever
For various (usually stupid) reasons, there are huge holes in our cultural history.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Chris Berglund, James Amaz
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5 Tiny Screw-Ups That Caused Giant Catastrophes
In wacky sitcoms and movies, people get a free pass. In real life, not so much ...
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- By A.C. Grimes
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5 Insane True Stories of Hostages Outsmarting Their Captors
We won't stop until kidnappers everywhere are too worried about their victims making them look like jackasses to ever nap a kid again.
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- By Evan V. Symon , Kier Harris, Carolyn Burke, Simone B.
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The 5 Coolest Things Ever Said In The History of War
Here's the latest installment in our series 'Holy hell, people actually talk like action heroes in real life?'
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Jorden Weir
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11 Old-Timey Photos That Somehow Aren't Photoshopped (Pt. 4)
When taken at face value, pictures from the olden days are either fake as hell or proof that the entire time between the Big Bang and our birth was totally messed up.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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26 Half-Baked Solutions That Solved Huge Problems
The next time someone tells you that you can't half-ass your way through life, just remember that one of those half-asses could save the world.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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- 527
21 Photos That Shatter Your Image of Famous Things
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- By AM Smiley
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5 Historical Figures Who Made James Bond Look Like a Pussy
Some of these folks clawed their way up from mundanity simply by having immense balls.
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- By David Rheinhart
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23 Historical Predictions (That Were Right On)
It turns out Biggie Smalls and Jesus weren't the only people who could predict the future.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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16 Diabolical Acts of Evil by Famous Corporations
We like to think of big corporations as being run by shady individuals who would watch the world burn if it meant making and saving a few bucks. It turns out that we aren't too far off the mark in some cases
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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