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The Surprisingly Strange Origins Of 22 Famous Companies
Superheroes could take a page from some of these companies’ origin stories.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- November 08, 2018
The 5 Dumbest Lies Ever Told By US Presidents (Before Trump)
You can't reach the White House without being a fantastic liar.
- By Jacopo della Quercia , Stephan Roget
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- November 06, 2018
The Surprisingly Weird Aftermaths Of 20 Famous Events
We’d call this the butterfly effect, but some of these facts just aren’t that pretty.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- November 01, 2018
5 Creepy AF Historical Finds (You'll Wish Hadn't Been Found)
These historical finds don't belong in museums, they belong in horror movies.
- By Adam Wears
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- October 29, 2018
18 'Unsolved' Mysteries That Have Been Thoroughly Solved
The actual mystery is, why do people think these haven’t been solved?
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- October 22, 2018
5 Ancient Discoveries That Prove We've Evolved Into Wimps
Our ancestors were some of the toughest people to ever live.
- By Alex Hanton, E. Reid Ross, Ivan Farkas, Laura H, Alan Corcoran
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- October 15, 2018
5 Insane Ways History's Screwed Over Disabled People
You might be surprised how cartoonishly evil some people can be.
- By Adam Wears
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- October 11, 2018
5 Famous Geniuses And Their Super Embarrassing Early Works
Even the best minds mankind has ever encountered behaved like hormonal idiots when they were young.
- By Raoni Lacerda, Peter I. Santiago
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- September 25, 2018
5 Awful Torture Methods (Invented For Humanitarian Reasons)
Some of histories worst atrocities were thought up by people who were only trying to help.
- By Nathan Williams
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- September 19, 2018
5 Historical Facts That Were Way Too Stupid For The Movies
History is a vast, fascinating, and occasionally very stupid thing.
- By Alex Hanton, Taylor Daine, E.M. Caris, Dan Hopper, James Freeth
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- September 18, 2018
The 1938 'War Of The Worlds' Alien Hysteria Was Fake News
Fake news about fake news?
- By Cracked Writers
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- September 15, 2018
World-Changing Plots That Came Close To Happening
A few mind-blowing conspiracies came scary close to actually changing the world.
- By Jacopo della Quercia , Alex Hanton
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- September 12, 2018
George Washington Got Hit By Lightning In The Womb
Apparently, George Washington was marked for greatness before he was ever born.
- By Cracked Writers
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- September 12, 2018
Bizarre, Unexpected Facts About Iconic Figures From History
Get ready to change your opinion of some super-famous people.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- September 12, 2018
6 Famous Quotes You See On Facebook (That Are Crazy Fake)
Most of these people would never said that thing you think they said.
- By Aquiles Cacho
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- September 11, 2018
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