Cracked Archive - History
5 Newspaper Articles From History You'll Swear I'm Making Up
In 1902, it was commonplace to believe horses were part maniac and part idiot.
- By Luis Prada
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- August 07, 2017
5 Horrifying Murderers (You Never Knew Got Away With It)
We live in the crapsack regular universe where some of history's greatest monsters have completely gotten away with it.
- By Adam Wears
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- August 07, 2017
5 Badass Characters You're Picturing Totally Incorrectly
Pop culture provides us with a convenient shorthand to understand history, but most of the time pop culture is super duper drunk.
- By Kathy Benjamin
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- August 04, 2017
5 Things That Were So Effective They Had To Be Banned
As if the dudes from 'MythBusters' weren't already awesome, their origin story lends them even more street cred.
- By Dennis Fulton
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- August 02, 2017
What Happens When Your Money Is Suddenly Worthless?
What happens when your country's entire economy is destroyed overnight? We spoke to two people who lived that nightmare.
- By Saundra Sorenson
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- July 26, 2017
5 Fashion Trends That Began With WAY Different Intentions
Sometimes a clothing trend develops outside of the fashion world and catches on with the last people you'd think.
- By James Kinneen
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- July 25, 2017
6 Catastrophes With Horrifying Aftermaths History Left Out
After Lincoln died, he was given a dignified burial. Just kidding, his decomposing carcass was paraded from city to city before finally being put in the ground.
- By Adam Wears
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- July 24, 2017
6 Everyday Places That Hide Dark Historical Secrets
When we forget history, we end up with ice cream shops and schools built on the paved over remains of evil deeds.
- By Isaac Cabe
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- July 18, 2017
12 Guilty-As-Hell People Who Pretty Much Got Away With It
Justice wasn't blind in the following cases, but it was most definitely dead.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- July 12, 2017
5 Weapons Of Carnage And Destruction (That Looked Silly AF)
Nothing drives human creativity more than a dire need for new ways to kill each other.
- By Cedric Voets
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- July 02, 2017
15 Everyday Things That Were Once Considered Scandalous
People will lose their minds over the most ridiculous things.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- June 19, 2017
12 Supposed Facts Of Life That Are Actually Propaganda
We like to think we'd never be influenced by propaganda -- but, of course, we're wrong.
- By AM Smiley
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- June 17, 2017
4 Vital Pieces Of Pop Culture We Lost Forever
There are countless important cultural milestones that have been lost to the annals of history for very stupid reasons.
- By Henrik Magnusson
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- June 14, 2017
5 Famous Historical Bad Guys (And Their Side Of The Story)
The following origin stories may not be as well-documented as Krypton exploding, but they all actually happened in reality.
- By Martin Kivell, Stephan Roget
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- June 09, 2017
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