Cracked Archive - History
The Rebecca Riots: When Welsh Farmers Dressed In Drag To Protest
Honestly, more violent riots should incorporate unnecessary theater.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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6 How Women Got To Wear Pants: The Dr. Mary Walker Story
Dr. Mary Walker path to the history books began with a pair of pants.
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- By Philip Yiannopoulos
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5 Historical Diet Tips That Were Dumb, Dumb, Dumb
Please don't replace meals with smoking.
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- By Mac Faber
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Susanna Salter Was the First American Woman Elected to Office (As a Joke)
They assumed no one would notice, and if they did, they definitely wouldn't vote for a woman ...
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Kentucky Meat Shower: Not A Lewd Act, But Still Gross
Best-case scenario, those guys definitely ate vulture vomit; worse-case, it was cannibalistic vulture vomit.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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55 Ways You're Picturing History Wrong
All our knowledge of history comes from movies, TV shows, and vague chitchat. Very little of it is true.
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- By Cracked Writers, Ryan Menezes
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Wartime Scarcity Created Nutella (Twice)
Necessity might be the mother of invention, but apparently, she has a short memory.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Essay About Farting -- That Argued for Women's Rights
The secret’s out: Lady laughter and tears are just held-in farts.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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German 'Robin Hood' Once Got The Military To Help Him Rob A Mayor
Unlike most outlaw heroes, he didn't even need a good reason for his crime.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Nightmare Fuel: Thomas Edison Invented (Terrifying) Talking Dolls
He apparently searched his mind for what kinds of sounds people might like and settled on 'Bible verses screeched frantically by my terrified factory staff.'
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- By Amanda Mannen
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We Need A Brigid of Kildare Movie -- Ireland's Coolest Saint
Brigid of Kildare is the patron saint of Ireland, milkmaids, and apparently not giving a damn.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Of America's Big Cities (That Have Underreported Downsides)
America is an incredibly vast and diverse country. Every town has its own problems, which are often completely incomprehensible to people even the next state over.
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- By Alex Hanton
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6 Ancient Bizarre Beliefs With Logical Explanations
Our ancestors believed in weird stuff, and sometimes they were right ...
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- By Steven Assarian
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That Time Florida Feared A 'Giant Penguin' Was Terrorizing Beaches
It was Florida, so it’s not like that wasn’t a possibility.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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55 Facts About The World's Nuttiest Leaders
Today, we're looking at the world's truly nutty leaders, and the sides of them that you'd never expect.
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- By Cracked Writers, Ryan Menezes
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