Cracked Archive - History
What the Dickens is Flag Day? A Complete History
What exactly is Flag Day? How do we celebrate it? What are we supposed to do with our hands?
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3 4 Ways The Satanic Panic Broke America's Brain In The 1980s
The Satanic Panic wasn't just a plot point on Stranger Things.
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- By Edison McManus
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The Weird(ly Short) History of Miranda Rights
You might get the impression from police dramas that cops have been advising detainees of their right to remain silent since the ink on the Constitution dried, but there are probably retirees alive today who complained about memorizing the words.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Modern American Satanism: The Church of Satan Vs. The Satanic Temple
They've have massively different ideologies, despite both really liking goat heads.
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- By Edison McManus
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15 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About the OJ Simpson Trial
There are a lot of things we thought we knew about the so-called "trial of the century" that aren’t entirely true.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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6 Ways Satan Influenced The Course Of American History
We had 666 ways at first, but the article was way too long.
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- By Edison McManus
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Hitler Had A Special Fart Doctor (Seriously) (VIDEO)
What a little farty boy.
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- By Jordan Breeding
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A Brief, Bizarre History of the Queen's Jubilees
Every time the anniversary of the Queen becoming the Queen hits a big round number, everyone in her realm stops to celebrate the truly undercelebrated woman.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Disasters Deleted From Your History Books
Featuring a clown in a tub and bean gas explosions.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Cracked's Big Questions: 6 Reasons Why The U.S. Doesn't Use The Metric System
5,280 feet to a mile is a terrible system, so why are we so attached to it?
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- By Dan Fritschie
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Meet 'Varney,' The Vampire Who Popped Up 50 Years Before 'Dracula'
One serialized novel changed everything and gave us the hip, hawt undead bloodsuckers we know and love today. That penny blood was Varney the Vampire (1845-1847), and without it the modern vampire would look a lot different.
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- By Jess Nevins
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12 Inventions That Were Accidentally Invented Twice
It took two people multiple centuries to come up with "the lightning rod." Congrats.
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- By Eli Yudin
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15 Sadistic Facts About the Marquis de Sade, the OG King of Smut
The censorship of his work raised important questions about freedom of speech, but he was absolutely not the kind of guy you wanted to hang out with.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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15 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About the Lizzie Borden Hatchet Murders
We all know that Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks -- but did she?
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Poppies and Politics: The History of Memorial Day
It wasn’t always barbecue and booze.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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